Tatum v. Rooker

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered on a verdict in favor of defendants in a personal injury case. Plaintiffs contend that the court erred in failing to direct a verdict for the plaintiffs on the issue of liability, and that the court also erred in failing to grant a new trial because the verdict was contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

Plaintiff Pearl Tatum was riding as a passenger in her husband’s car on January 25, 1958. Her husband, Roy Tatum, was driving the car. The car was proceeding in a westerly…