Wade v. Lane

YOUNGDAHL, District Judge.

This cause is before the Court now on plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial,1 made following a jury verdict2 for defendant.

*663Plaintiffs contended on the trial of this action that on the morning of February 11, 1958, the defendant negligently allowed his automobile to make contact with the rear of a vehicle immediately in front of it in a line of traffic — the second vehicle being an ambulance taking “outpatients” to D. C. General Hospital and male plaintiff, acting as “attendant”, being a passenger in its front seat — and that such contact proximately resulted in back…