DeWitt v. Rissman

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment which the circuit court entered in favor of the defendant after a jury had returned a verdict in the plaintiff’s favor in the sum of $6,750, and the court had sustained a motion made by the defendant for the entry of judgment in her favor notwithstanding the verdict.

The action which resulted in this appeal was based upon charges that one Paul Lee, now deceased, drove his car in a grossly negligent manner on February 18, 1956, at 6:45 a.m., and thereby caused personal injury to the plaintiff. The defendant is the administratrix of the estate…