DeMoulin v. Kissir

CLEMENS, Commissioner.

The primary issue here arises from the trial court’s refusal to give defendant’s withdrawal instruction. The instruction would have directed the jury to disregard evidence of a doctor’s bill for treating the plaintiff-wife’s dislocated jaw, one of her alleged injuries. This, on the ground that plaintiffs had failed to show a causal connection between the accidental injury and the dislocation. Lesser issues concern the sufficiency of evidence to show loss of consortium, and the propriety of a hypothetical question.

The defendant negligently drove his car into the rear of…