Coe v. Kings County Truck Line

Dr. Marie Condee Coe was killed at a signal-controlled intersection, within a business district, in a daylight collision between a Dodge sedan being operated easterly by her and defendants’ heavy 65,500-pound and lengthy, approximately 60-foot, equipment which consisted of a truck-tractor and a large semitrailer and a converter gear with another semitrailer attached, being operated by defendant in a southerly direction.

The action is for damage - by the surviving husband and minor children of deceased. Following a jury trial the verdict and judgment were for defendant. A motion for a new trial…