O'NEIL v. Behrendt

The plaintiff, Sandra Susan O’Neil, who was a passenger in a motor vehicle which was involved in an accident, has appealed from a jury verdict and judgment entered in her favor in the amount of $1,000, and from the subsequent order of the District Court which overruled her motion for a new trial. She assigns as error the inadequacy of the verdict and the failure of the trial court to instruct the jury on non-imputation of negligence to the plaintiff.

Mrs. O’Neil is a 34-year-old housewife and the mother of two children, ages 11 and 7 years. She is also a registered nurse, but with the…