Palma v. Barta

Plaintiff below, Irene Palma, appeals to this court the verdict of the jury and judgment rendered thereon awarding her the sum of $4,000 as damages for injuries she received on October 28, 1976, in an intersection collision between an automobile driven by her husband, Victor Palma, and an automobile driven by the defendant, Shirley Ann Barta, owned and maintained by her husband, Joseph Frank Barta, Jr. We affirm.

At the conclusion of the evidence, the trial court sustained a motion by plaintiff’s counsel for a directed verdict on the issue of defendants’ negligence; and submitted to the jury…