Taylor v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

This is an appeal by the Prudential Insurance Company of America from a judgment of the court sustaining plaintiff’s motion to set aside an involuntary nonsuit. At the close of plaintiff’s case defendant offered a peremptory instruction which was. given by the court. Thereupon plaintiff took an involuntary nonsuit with leave and filed a motion to set said nonsuit aside. This motion the court sustained and defendant has duly appealed to this court.

Plaintiff’s amended petition, upon which the case was tried, pleads general negligence, alleging also that the defendant insurance company was the…