Jury awards $200,000 to man injured in collision with tractor 

An unsympathetic defendant’s adamant denial of responsibility may have helped a South Carolina man win a six-figure verdict in a recent personal injury case in the Calhoun County Court of Common Pleas. The defendant, Edward Horton, was driving a tractor without working taillights or rear safety reflectors along a dark stretch of road in the Sandy Run community in late August 2007, when a truck going about 50 mph collided with the back of the tractor and a mower it was hauling. Terry L. Costellia was at the wheel of the pickup, which overturned during the crash. He suffered shoulder, hip and back injuries. He and his wife sued Horton for personal injury and loss of consortium, respectively.

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