Jones v. Plotkin

This is an action of tort for damages to the plaintiff’s automobile resulting from a collision. It was tried with four cross actions, two of which were for personal injuries, one for medical expenses and one for damages to the defendant’s motor vehicle caused by the same collision. The jury returned verdicts for the defendant Jones in the cross actions and for the plaintiff in this action. The defendant herein excepted to the denial of his motion for a directed verdict based solely on the ground that as matter of law the plaintiff’s negligence was a contributing cause of the accident. He…