Mazzotta v. Los Angeles Railway Corp.

A jury awarded Jane Mazzotta damages for personal injuries sustained by her as the result of a collision between an automobile driven by Samuel Pinkelstein and a motorbus operated by Los Angeles Bailway Corporation. Both Pinkelstein and the corporation moved for a new trial upon all of the statutory grounds. Each motion was granted, that of the corporation because of errors of law and also upon the ground of the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. The ruling in favor of Pinkelstein was based upon certain instructions which the court declared were erroneous, and the appeal is…