Ellsworth v. General Motors Corp.

Appeals from judgments of the Supreme Court in favor of plaintiffs, entered August 18,1980 and August 20,1980 in St. Lawrence County, upon a verdict rendered at Trial Term (Ford, J.). Early on the afternoon of November 3, 1973, plaintiffs Betty Thrasher and Pearl Ellsworth left their respective homes in St. Lawrence County in Mrs. Ellsworth’s new 1973 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu to shop and visit friends and relatives in and near the hamlet of Santa Clara in Franklin County. After dinner, following an afternoon and evening of socializing, they headed home with Mrs. Thrasher at the wheel. En…