Byrne v. Matczak

VAN DUSEN, District Judge.

This case is before the court on defendants’ alternative post-trial motions (1) to set aside the verdict and enter judgment in their favor, or (2) for new trial, which were filed after entry of judgment on the jurjr’s verdict for plaintiff. Plaintiff’s decedent (an eighteen-year old woman, who left surviving an infant child and husband) was killed as the result of a “head-on” collision between the car she was driving and defendants’ truck loaded with sand weighing fifteen tons. The principal factual issue before the jury on the subject of liability was which vehicles…