Belleson v. Klohr

At a trial for damages arising out of an automobile accident defendant’s motion for a directed verdict was denied, and a jury in Howard County returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Defendant’s subsequent motion for a judgment n.o.v. was also denied, and this appeal followed.

Some of the facts of this case are not in dispute. Summarized they are that appellee Edward S. Klohr, seventy-two years old, left home before daylight on October 27, 1965, to drive to a cider mill in Carroll County, Maryland. While driving his pick-up truck north on State Route 97 the left rear tire blew out, and Klohr…