Carraher v. Bacon

Defendants appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict which awarded the plaintiff *7,500 for damages suffered when plaintiffs vehicle struck the rear of a truck operated by the defendant Walter Bacon and owned by the defendant Glen Zuberbier. Defendants contend that the jury’s finding of negligence is against the manifest weight of the evidence; that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as a matter of law; and alternatively that the verdict is excessive.

The charge of negligence pleaded by the plaintiff and which was submitted to the jury related to a claimed violation of…