Douglas v. Hawkins

KENNEDY, Judge.

This is an appeal by plaintiffs Linda Douglas and her husband Wayne Douglas from a judgment for defendants pursuant to a directed verdict entered by the court at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence in their claims for personal injuries and loss of consortium respectively.

Plaintiffs’ claims grew out of a collision which occurred on January 30, 1985, on Highway 1-29 in Platte County, in which Linda claims she sustained a broken wrist. Wayne was driving and Linda was riding in the front passenger seat of the Douglas automobile. They were driving south, in the middle lane of the…