Perkins v. Andrews
| Decision Date | 19 May 1967 |
| Docket Number | No. 42759,No. 3,42759,3 |
| Citation | 156 S.E.2d 126,115 Ga.App. 816 |
| Parties | R. M. PERKINS v. G. H. ANDREWS et al |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Smith, Cohen, Ringel, Kohler, Martin & Lowe, Meade Burns, Robert W. Beynart, H. A. Stephens, Jr., Atlanta, for appellant.
Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, Warner S. Currie, Albert E. Phillips, Hurt, Hill & Richardson, Robert Richardson, Atlanta, for appellees.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court
This litigation arose out of a multiple automobile collision involving four passenger automobiles proceeding north one behind the other on the south expressway in Atlanta. For convenience, they are referred to, from front to rear, as the first, second, third, and fourth vehicles. The plaintiff, as owner and driver of the second vehicle, sued the drivers of the third and fourth vehicles for property damage to his vehicle and for personal injuries. As to the sequence of events he testified that the line of traffic stopped and that he stopped his vehicle immediately to the rear of the first vehicle, that about half a minute later his vehicle was struck from the rear, and that two or three seconds after the first impact there was a second impact from the rear, but he was unable to provide any other details. There is evidence that immediately after the occurrence there was visual damage on the front and rear of the second and third vehicles, and on the front of the fourth vehicle. The driver of the third vehicle did not testify, and the driver of the fourth vehicle was 'not absolutely certain' as to whether the third vehicle had stopped when his vehicle struck it, and also 'not absolutely sure' whether the third vehicle had struck the second vehicle before his vehicle struck the third vehicle. The testimony of an investigating officer who visited the scene shortly after the occurrence fails to establish the sequence of events. The driver of the second vehicle appeals from the grant of a nonsuit eliminating the driver of the third vehicle as a defendant. Held:
1. The driver of the third vehicle, as an appellee in this court, on the grant of a nonsuit, has properly abandoned his motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that the case is still pending in the court below as to the other alleged tortfeasor. See, in this connection, Edwards v. Gulf Oil Corporation, 69 Ga.App. 140, 24 S.E.2d 843, and cases cited.
2. A nonsuit is proper...
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