Browder v. Lawless

REDMANN, Judge.

Defendant Rigelton, driving a hearse in his employment by defendant Lawless in a funeral procession, rear-ended a limousine in which plaintiffs Browder and Mrs. Burnes were passengers. From judgments against Rigelton and Lawless for damages from personal injuries to the passengers, those defendants appeal. Browder answers the appeal, seeking increase in quantum.

The defendant driver admitted he had taken his eye off the limousine and glanced to the side as the procession neared an entrance to the expressway it was on. When he again looked ahead, the limousine had stopped and it…