Holton v. Gibson

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Eagen,

This appeal is from the entry of judgment after the refusal of the court below to grant defendant’s motions for a new trial and for judgment non obstante veredicto in an action of trespass wherein the jury returned a verdict of $24,416.75 in favor of plaintiffs. Appellees are husband and wife, the former alone having sustained personal injury and the latter joined solely because of her rights of partial ownership in the damaged vehicle involved.

At approximately eight o’clock in the evening of October 22, 1954, the husband-plaintiff and the defendant were driving…