Legal Opinion · Dissent

Lowry v. State Farm Ins. Companies

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 23, 1990No. 01897Published

1DissentPopovich, Judge

I cannot join in the Majority’s reversal of the trial court’s grant of the defendant’s (State Farm Insurance Companies’) motion for judgment non obstante veredicto and denying the plaintiff’s (Richard E. Lowry’s) motion for a new trial.

Since the verdict was in the plaintiff’s favor, and all conflicts having been resolved in his favor as well, he is entitled to have the evidence supporting his verdict considered and all the rest rejected. Valentine v. Philadelphia Transp. Co., 167 Pa.Super. 592, 594, 76 A.2d 471, 472-73 (1950). Reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to him and…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Standard Venetian Blind Co. v. American Empire InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  2. Bata v. Central-Penn Nat. Bank of Phila.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
  3. Mohn v. American Casualty Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1974
  4. Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Ass'n v. Aetna Casualty & Surety InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1967
  5. Blue Anchor Overall Co. v. Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1956

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