Heston v. Lilly

Eldridge, Judge.

Tracey Heston aggravated a pre-existing left knee injury, which she had suffered several days prior to a collision in which she was rear-ended in a motor vehicle collision with Thomas Malcolm Lilly. In Lilly’s answer, he admitted that he had been “negligent” in causing the collision between their vehicles, but in the same sentence of his answer denied that Heston was injured in the collision and that “the accident was the proximate cause of any alleged injury.” On trial of the case, the jury returned a defendant’s verdict.

Plaintiff appeals from the denial of her motion for new…