Gould v. Spreitzer

Plaintiff, Robert Gould, appeals from a jury verdict in favor of defendant, Gerald Spreitzer, Jr., in his suit for personal injuries resulting from a fall from defendant’s pickup truck. Plaintiff claims that the trial court should have granted his motion for a directed verdict, and in the alternative that the jury’s verdict is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

On November 2, 1982, defendant, then age 17, picked up plaintiff, then age 15, and two fellow high school students, in his pickup truck, in order to drive them to a football game. Plaintiff and his friend, A. J.…