Vallie v. General Insurance Co. of America

This is another in that all-too-frequent line of cases in which precious little is known as to what actually happened. Four of the five people who were in the two cars perished directly. The fifth, the plaintiff, did not see the crash.

The jury chose to believe Mr. La Vallie’s version of what took place before the collision. His testimony, coupled with the physical facts, contains at least the minimum credible evidence to sustain the verdict. Mr. La Vallie testified that he saw an automobile about 600 feet to the rear at the moment that he struck a bump in the road and started to skid; he then…