Nixon v. Chiarilli

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Chidsey,

These are appeals from orders denying defendant’s motions for new trials and for judgments non obstante veredicto.

Plaintiffs, Orón W. Nixon and Helen C. Nixon, husband and wife, brought suit in trespass for damages resulting from a collision of an automobile in which plaintiffs were riding, driven by Orón W. Nixon, and a car owned and operated by the defendant, Anthony O. Chiarilli. The suit of the husband and wife was severed for the purpose of joining the husband-driver as an additional defendant in the wife’s action. The two actions were then tried together…