Clougherty v. Pridham

Four occupants of an automobile including the owner, Catherine Clougherty, and the operator, Grace OTIearn, were injured when the automobile struck the rear of an automobile owned and driven by the defendant when it was stopping or had stopped as it proceeded ahead of the Clougherty automobile on the afternoon of July 4, 1952. The jury returned verdicts for all the plaintiffs including the personal representative of one who had died before the trial, but under leave reserved the judge ordered the verdicts for Catherine Clougherty and O’Hearn set aside and refused to vacate the verdicts…