California Courts of Appeal,
Civil Litigation,
Construction
Mar. 8, 2022
Despite admission, roadway contractor can’t avoid liability
For the roadway contractor, it appeared to be an open-and-shut case due to an admission of liability. But that wasn’t how the court saw it.
For the roadway contractor, it appeared to be an open-and-shut case: Plaintiff car driver was stopped at a standard one-way "reversing lane closure" traffic control in which traffic going in one direction would be stopped while traffic going in the other direction was allowed to proceed, and then the procedure would be reversed. While stopped at the traffic control, plaintiff was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by George Smithson. Smithson tes...
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