Buonanno v. Cameron

The plaintiff claims error in the denial of his motion to set aside the verdict, in rulings on evidence and in the charge.

The plaintiff’s intestate, a pedestrian, was struck and killed by the defendants’ automobile on a public highway in the night season. The jury could have found that the highway was slippery from hard-packed snow; that it curved just before the point of collision; that the defendant’s car was following another, which was about thirty-five or forty feet directly ahead, at a rate of speed of about twenty-five miles an hour; that the car ahead swerved suddenly to its right…