Jackson v. Coeling

Plaintiffs appeal as of right from a judgment of no cause of action entered after an adverse jury verdict. They claim that the trial judge erred in his instructions to the jury and that he abused his discretion in deciding that the jury’s verdict was not against the great weight of the evidence.

At trial, plaintiffs claimed that plaintiff Jacqueline Jackson suffered serious injuries in an automobile accident. She was a passenger in a car driven by defendant Robin Coeling. At about 9:00 p.m. on November 9, 1979, while driving on an overpass on 1-96 in Grand Rapids, defendant hit a patch of ice,…