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PURCHAL v. PATTERSON

No. 84-2450.

762 F.2d 713 (1985)

Matthew F. PURCHAL, Ruth Ann Purchal, husband and wife, and Behlen Manufacturing Company, a Delaware corporation, Appellees, v. John H. PATTERSON and Alter Trucking and Terminal Corporation, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 22, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elliott R. McDonald, Jr., Davenport, Iowa, for appellants.

George H. Moyer, Jr., Madison, Neb., for appellees.

Before ROSS, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs in a negligence action arising out of a rear-end collision between two trucks. The case was tried under a pure comparative fault theory.1 The jury returned special verdicts attributing ten per cent of the total causal negligence to plaintiff Matthew F. Purchal and ninety per cent to defendant John H. Patterson. Defendants contend that these findings are disproportionate...

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