Rayfield v. Farris

How courts have described this case

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• doctrine of sudden emergency “ ‘requires that the person confronted by the emergency have the opportunity to exercise one of several reasonable alternative courses of action’ ”
• no error in refusing to instruct on sudden emergency where there was no evidence that, in the brief period between realizing the peril and the collision, the defendant had any other option than to hit the plaintiff’s vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).