Healy v. White

This personal injury action was tried to the jury as a hearing in damages, the issue of the defendants’ liability having been determined by summary judgment. The defendants have appealed from the judgments rendered on the verdicts for the plaintiffs.

On July 24, 1973, the plaintiff Brian Healy, then seven and a half years old, was riding as a passenger in an automobile operated by his mother, Mary Jane Healy. At the intersection of Routes 25 and 202 in Newtown, their automobile was struck by a tractor-trailer truck owned by the defendant Silli-man Company and operated by its employee, the…