Means v. Osborne

This is an appeal from the judgment and verdict of the Addison Superior Court in an automobile negligence case tried in January, 1975. The appeal here is primarily based upon the trial court’s denial of plaintiff John Means’ motion for a new trial.

The action was brought as a consequence of a collision of the cars driven by the plaintiff, John R. Means, and by the defendant, Reverend James R. Osborne, on March 5, 1971. The accident occurred on a road leading easterly from Vergennes, Vermont, toward Monkton, Vermont, and at the crest of a sharp hill banked with snow, where windblown snow…