Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Wright

Defendant, Norfolk and Western Railway Company, appeals from a final order confirming a jury verdict awarding plaintiff, Ronald L. Wright, $42,500 in damages on account of personal injuries sustained in a train-automobile collision. Defendant assigns error to the trial court’s action overruling its two motions to strike plaintiff’s evidence and its motion to set aside the verdict.

*516At approximately 3:15 a.m. on March 11, 1972, plaintiff was a passenger on the right front seat of a station wagon operated by Joseph Calvin Meador, Sr. Meador, plaintiff, and three other occupants of the vehicle had…