Jacobs v. the Hertz Corp.

In this action of tort the plaintiff had a verdict. The case is here on the defendant’s exceptions to two rulings on evidence and to the denial of its motion for a directed verdict.

We recite only so much of the evidence as is necessary to an understanding of the challenged rulings. About 10 a.m., September 9, 1964, the plaintiff was driving a motor vehicle on the Connecticut Turnpike. In front of him was a tractor-trailer truck proceeding at fifty to fifty-five miles an hour. The plaintiff “noticed the spare tire of the truck had fallen out of the rack located beneath the trailer.” It went…