Kerin, B.N.F. v. Coates C.I.T. Corp.

On December 2, 1940, at about noon, the plaintiff while riding, as a gratuitous passenger, in an automobile owned and driven by the defendant Coates from Montpelier en route to Rutland was injured in a head on collision with an automobile owned by the defendant C. I. T. Corporation. The plaintiff’s action for damages resulted in the trial court in a verdict and judgment for the defendant C. I. T. Corp. and for the plaintiff against the defendant Coates, which, in order to be sustained as against Coates, hereinafter called the defendant, must have been based, under P. L. 5113, upon a finding…