Agranoff v. Morton

Appellants, defendants below, appeal from an order granting a new trial in an automobile accident case in which the jury found a verdict for the defendants.

Respondent, plaintiff below, sued for $150,000, one thousand dollars of which was for damage to the 1947 automobile, plus other items of special damage, both accrued and to be incurred, in the sum of $1,781.93.

The record discloses that, while respondent’s car was stopped for a traffic control light to clear, appellants’ pickup truck struck it from the rear. The impact was not violent and moved respondent’s car only two feet. Survey of the…