DeGroot v. Van Akkeren

The defendants first contend that the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict in their favor and in refusing to grant their motions to change certain answers of the jury and for judgment in their favor on the verdict as so changed.

In order that these contentions may be understood it will be necessary briefly to summarize the evidence. On July 6, 1936, the plaintiffs’ son, Conway, aged five years eleven months and two days, was fatally injured as a result of his colliding with the right rear wheel of a Chevrolet truck belonging to the partnership and operated at the time by the defendant…