Stockfisch v. Fox

Plaintiff reviews directed verdict and judgment for defendants. The testimony and permissible inferences therefrom must be resolved in favor of plaintiff.

In the' afternoon of a bright, dry day, Vernon Stockfisch, 16 years old, five feet six inches in height, weighing 120 pounds, was riding* a bicycle westerly on an 18-foot paved highway. On the bicycle with him was a boy, seven years old, weighing about 40 pounds. Following them were a truck and trailer, owned by defendant corporation and driven by its employee defendant Fox, and two other cars. Excepting those vehicles, there was no other…