Nielsen v. Dierking

FINCH, Presiding Justice.

The jury returned a verdict for defendant in a suit wherein plaintiff sought $350,000 for personal injuries received when he was run over by a school bus operated by defendant’s decedent. The trial court sustained plaintiff’s motion for a new trial and defendant appeals.

The trial court assigned two grounds for sustaining plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. Both concerned the admission of certain evidence by the trial court and involve the doctrine which permits the admission into evidence of prior consistent statements for the purpose of rehabilitation of the witness…