Richard Bedor v. Michael E. Johnson

Summary

Justice Eid, dissenting, would preserve Colorado's sudden-emergency jury instruction because it restates the ordinary reasonable-person negligence standard and the record contained sufficient evidence of an emergency. She would also conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in giving the instruction. Justice Boatright, dissenting, likewise would retain the doctrine under stare decisis and affirm the court of appeals because competent evidence supported the instruction.