Curlee v. Steward

JENNINGS, Justice.

The appellants were defendants in an action for personal injuries sustained in a collision between a taxi and a pickup truck at an uncontrolled intersection in the City of Phoenix. There was a verdict and judgment for plaintiffs, appellees herein, in the sum of $20,000. Defendants’ motion for a new trial was denied and they appealed.

Oritha Steward was a passenger in her husband’s pickup truck at the time of the collision. The truck, driven by the plaintiff John E. Steward, had just passed through a school zone and had slowed to 15 mph although school was not in session and…