Wingate Taylor-Maid Transportation, Inc. v. Baker

Steele Hays, Justice.

Wingate Taylor-Maid Transportation, Inc. (defendant below) appeals from a judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict awarding $40,000 to Carrie Baker and $15,000 to her daughter, Nico Baker. The judgment was for personal injuries to the Bakers arising from a collision with Wingate’s tractor-trailor rig. The collision occurred when Win-gate’s driver, Fred Lynch, struck the Baker vehicle as Carrie Baker was turning left from State Highway No. 1 onto Highway 242. At the end of the trial the plaintiffs moved for a directed verdict on the issues of negligence and comparative…