Cervelli v. Graves

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming the trial court's refusal to give a jury instruction that set an individualized standard of care for a semi-truck driver and reasoning that to do so would be to convert an ordinary negligence case into a semi-truck driver's malpractice action
• affirming the trial court's refusal to give a jury instruction that set an individualized standard of care for a semi-truck driver and reasoning that to do so would be to convert an ordinary negligence case into a semi-truck driver's malpractice action
• affirming the trial court's refusal to give a jury instruction that set an individualized standard of care for a semi-truck driver and reasoning that to do so would be to convert an ordinary negligence case into a semi-truck driver's malpractice action
• “all drivers are to exercise due care under the circumstances in the operation of their vehicles”
• jury in negligence case should have been allowed to consider evidence from which it could have concluded that truck driver involved in accident \was more skillful than others as a result of his experience as a driver\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).