Pelley v. Peterbilt Motors Co.

Plaintiff appeals from a jury verdict of no cause of action rendered in favor of defendants. In addition, plaintiff claims that the trial court erred in awarding judgment on the partial directed verdict, rendered after completion of plaintiff’s proofs, sometime later: in fact, after appeal was taken to this Court.

Plaintiff raises various issues on appeal, none of which require reversal. First, plaintiff argues that denial of her motion at the outset of trial to apply Michigan’s comparative negligence law rather than Ohio’s contributory negliegence standard was error.

This wrongful death case…