Rowe v. Safeway Stores, Inc.

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff wife in a motor vehicle collision. The jury returned a verdict for the defendants. The trial court granted plaintiffs’ motion for a new trial on the ground that certain instructions requested by them had been erroneously refused. Defendants have appealed.

Appellants maintain that the court erred in granting the motion for a new trial for the following reasons, broadly stated: (1) The appellants’ motion for a directed verdict at the trial should have been granted, the verdict in their favor being the only one…