Amsden v. Washington Bridge Express Lines, Inc.

Appeal from three judgments based on verdicts obtained at the Rensselaer Trial Term. This was a three-car accident on a State highway near Peekskill. Plaintiff Helen Amsden sued the defendant Washington Bridge Express Lines, Inc., a bus company, and John J. Amsden, her husband, sued Harry J. Roeder and the bus company for negligence. The husband and wife were driving south on then own side of the road, and the bus and the defendant Roeder were proceeding north, Roeder following the bus. There was evidence from which the jury could find that Roeder attempted to pass the bus, and, before he got…