Paskewicz v. Hickey

The first assignment of error is the denial of the plaintiff’s motion to set aside the verdict. We accord much weight to the views of the trial judge under these circumstances, and in determining whether his action was justified, we give the defendant’s evidence the most favorable interpretation which can fairly and reasonably be put upon it. Thus considered, the jury could reasonably have found that about half past ten on the evening of September 29th, 1928, an automobile driven by the defendant Daniel F. B. Hickey and owned by his wife, who, with Mrs. McHugh, was with him in the car, was…