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· 8/21/1996

Fouts v. Builders Transport, Inc.

Citations

  • 474 S.E.2d 746
  • 222 Ga. App. 568
  • 96 Fulton County D. Rep. 3079
  • 1996 Ga. App. LEXIS 920

How courts have described this case

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

  • OCGA § 40-6-20 “mandates an absolute duty [for a driver] to stop a vehicle for a traffic control device”
  • “It is well established that a lay witness may express opinions regarding traffic signals, speed, distance, and stopping distances based on the witness’s observations.”
  • Department of Transportation engineer properly allowed to testify that intersection negligently designed
  • last clear chance charge that addressed whether either the plaintiff or the defendant could have avoided an accident through the use of ordinary care was reversible error, where the facts supported the giving of such charge only as to one of the parties
  • last clear chance charge that addressed whether either the plaintiff or the defendant could have avoided an accident through the use of ordinary care was reversible error, where the facts supported the giving of such charge only as to one of the parties

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Judges: Ruffin, McMurray, Johnson

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