Legal Opinion
Samuel Simblest v. Joseph Maynard
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 12, 1970No. 34285_1PublishedCited by 270 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TIMBERS, District Judge:
We have before us another instance of Vermont justice — this time at the hands of a federal trial judge who, correctly applying the law, set aside a $17,125 plaintiff’s verdict and entered judgment n. o. v. for defendant, Rule 50(b), Fed.R. Civ.P., in a diversity negligence action arising out of an intersection collision between a passenger vehicle driven by plaintiff and a fire engine driven by defendant in Burlington, Vermont, during the electric power blackout which left most of New England in darkness on the night of November 9, 1965. We affirm.
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