Joseph Earl Willmore v. Hertz Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, and Rembrandt, Inc., a Missouri Corporation

McCREE, Circuit Judge.

This is a diversity action for personal injuries sustained in an automobile accident, and the appeal is taken from a judgment entered on a jury verdict of $75,000 against both defendants.

The accident occurred in the late evening of March 14, 1965. Willmore was driving south on state route M-66, a two-lane highway, in Montcalm County, Michigan, and defendants’ driver was proceeding in the opposite direction on the same highway. The physical evi dence indicated, and the parties agree, that the vehicles collided head-on in plaintiff’s lane. Plaintiff’s passenger and…