Case ID: ad_227/html/0760-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Christopher DeWein, as Administrator, etc., of William P. DeWein, Deceased, Respondent, v. Leon L. Lancaster, Appellant.
   Per Curiam.

The verdict in this case and in the ease of Robert DeWein v. Lancaster, and Christopher DeWein v. Lancaster, decided herewith (post, p. 763), were in our opinion not inconsistent, as the burden in respect to contributory negligence was not on the same party in all three cases. It may well have been that the jury determined in this case that the evidence in this respect was evenly balanced and, therefore, found the defense of contributory negligence was not established, and at the same time determined that the burden was not borne by the respective plaintiffs to establish freedom from contributory negligence on the part of Robert DeWein in the other two cases. As to the question'of inadequacy of the verdict, the subject was one peculiarly for the jury, and, considering the .age of the boy, the practices in the family in the past, the outlook for the future .and all the circumstances shown in the evidence, we cannot say that the jury were not justified in returning the verdict which they did. Costs are awarded under section 1491, subdivision 1, of the Civil Practice Act. All concur. Present — Sears, P. J., Taylor, Edgeomb, Thompson and Crosby, JJ. Order reversed on the law and facts and verdict .reinstated, with costs to respondent.