Claridge v. Anzolone

Defendants appeal from a judgment for $10,000.00 in favor of plaintiff. This is a damage suit for personal injuries due to a collision at a street intersection between a motorcycle driven by plaintiff and a motor truck driven by defendants’ employee. The case went to the jury solely under the humanitarian rule for failure “to have stopped said truck, or reduced the speed thereof, or have swerved the same.”

The question before us is: did the facts shown by the evidence justify the submission of the case to the jury?

In deciding that question we must, of course, view the evidence in a light most…