LaFalce v. Wolcott

BECTON, Judge.

Plaintiffs, Bettye Jo and Anthony J. LaFalce, appeal from the trial court’s judgment (a) allowing defendant’s motion for a directed verdict and dismissing plaintiffs’ personal injury and property damage action; and (b) allowing defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and granting defendant’s motion for a new trial on defendant’s counterclaim for property damage.

On 26 July 1983, Bettye Jo LaFalce was driving south in the outside lane of Asheland Avenue, a four-lane street. According to Ms. LaFalce, she saw a dark car in the driveway of a parking lot of a doctor’s office ahead…