City of Coral Gables v. Logan

The City of Coral Gables, defendant in the trial court, appeals from an order denying a motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict and granting the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial, and from a final judgment against it entered pursuant to a jury verdict on special interrogatories on the remaining portion of the claim in an action for wrongful death filed on behalf of the two children and the estate of the decedent.

On July 28, 1972, the decedent, who was riding a motorcycle, collided with a City of Coral Gables flatbed truck driven by Herman Clarke, at the intersection of Ludlam Road…