Townsend v. Wise

STEEL, Senior District Judge:

Plaintiffs, against whom a jury verdict was rendered in a motor vehicle accident *1163case, have filed timely motions for a judgment n. o. v. in their favor or in the alternative for a new trial.

The action may be viewed as one solely by the plaintiff Stella Lillie Lynch Townsend (“Townsend”) against the defendant John Roland Wise (“Wise”).1 The accident occurred in Delaware when Townsend, who was driving a Cadillac passenger car, ran into a tractor trailer driven by Wise at the intersection of Route 54, a through highway, and County Road 456, the Whitesville Road,…