Crawford v. Nilan

The plaintiffs in this case have appealed from an order which set aside the verdicts of a jury in their favor; and the defendant has appealed from a separate part of said order which denied a motion for a directed verdict in his favor. The complaint embraces five causes of action based upon alleged negligence on the part of the driver of defendant’s automobile.

The accident out of which these causes arose happened on a Sunday, June 16, 1940, about six-thirty in the afternoon, on a State highway, known as Route 52, at a point about three miles east of the village of Ellenville, N. Y. This…