Albu v. Sweeney

Plaintiffs sought damages for injuries they incurred when a taxicab in which they were riding (owned and operated by defendants and .appellants Sweeney and Sabo, respectively), became involved in an accident with a passenger car owned and operated by another defendant, Kaminski. The 2 cases were consolidated for trial and appeal. At the close of plaintiffs’ proofs and again at the close of all proofs defendant-appellants Sweeney and Sabo moved for directed verdicts on the ground that the plaintiff passengers in the taxicab had failed to prove that they, the owner and driver thereof, were…