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PETTINGILL v. KELTON

No. 1230.

207 A.2d 245 (1965)

Ned H. PETTINGILL v. C. E. KELTON, doing business as C. E. Kelton Motor Transportation, and Warren Blanchard.

Supreme Court of Vermont. Windsor.

February 2, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monti, Patterson, Calhoun, Edredge & Noble, Montpelier, for plaintiff.

Black & Plante, Alfred Guarino, White River Junction, and Frank G. Mahady, White River Junction, on the brief for defendants.

Before HOLDEN, C. J., SHANGRAW, BARNEY and SMITH, JJ., and O'BRIEN, Superior Judge.

HOLDEN, Chief Justice.

This appeal concerns the authority of the trial court to unconditionally increase the jury's award of damages in this action of negligence. The issue developed from a highway accident on December 15, 1958, in the town of Royalton, Vermont. The plaintiff's evidence indicated that his tractor-trailer unit was forced to leave the highway when it was overtaken by a tractor-trailer owned by the defendant Kelton and operated by his co-defendant, Blanchard...

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