Black v. DeWitt

Plaintiff appeals from a not guilty verdict and judgment in her personal injury action and seeks a new trial, asserting that the verdict was against the manifest weight of the evidence, and that prejudicial errors were committed in a cross-examination of one of plaintiff’s witnesses, a State Trooper.

On July 12, 1958, while a passenger in the front seat of an automobile operated by Jerry Barbee, the plaintiff, Myrtle Black, was injured when Jerry Bar-bee’s car collided with an automobile owned and operated by defendant, Othello DeWitt. Plaintiff subsequently married Jerry Barbee. He was…