Overman v. the Trust Co. of N.J.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Perskie, J.

This is a sidewalk case. Defendant appeals from a judgment, based upon a jury verdict of $600, in favor of plaintiff.

The single question argued and requiring decision on the facts of this case is whether the trial judge erred, as it is claimed he did, in denying defendant’s motions to nonsuit and to direct a verdict in its favor.

Plaintiff was a tenant for about eight years in defendant’s apartment house at 18-20 Enos Place, Jersey City, New Jersey. About eleven o’clock on the night of June 12th, 1938, he drove his car to the front of the…