Falleo v. Byrolly Transportation Co.

These appeals are based solely upon the claim that the trial court erred in setting aside the verdicts of the jury. The memorandum of decision concludes: “I fail to find evidence from which the' jury could have found that the defendant’s driver was negligent. The verdicts are therefore set aside.” A very brief reference is made to the action of the defendant’s driver, as the court believed it to have been proved, and it is characterized as the conduct of a reasonably prudent man. There is no intimation that the jury, in reaching an opposite conclusion, had acted from motives of prejudice,…