Callen v. Knopp

The plaintiff, Frances Day Callen, and her husband, Ernest Glenn Callen, were injured in an automobile accident on May 30, 1964. At the time of the accident the Callens were passengers in an automobile operated by the defendant, Marion Senn Waddell, which became involved in a collision with an automobile operated by the defendant, Louis F. Knopp. This action was brought by the plaintiff, as executrix of her husband’s estate, to recover the damages which were sustained in the accident.

At the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, the district court sustained motions to dismiss made by the…