Legal Opinion
J. Conrad MacQuarrie v. Howard Johnson Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 2, 1989No. 88-1544PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
MacQuarrie appeals the decision of the district court granting Howard Johnson’s motion for Judgment Notwithstanding the Verdict, reversing a $400,000 award by the jury to appellant in this negligence case. We find that there was sufficient evidence supporting the jury’s verdict and therefore we reverse.
I. Background
Appellant had traveled on a Friday evening to Newark, Delaware in order to attend a football game of Colgate University, his alma mater. He had arranged to stay for the weekend in the local Howard Johnson motor lodge, located right off Route 1-95, a major…
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