Legal Opinion

Finkbeiner v. Chidsey

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Northampton County

Decided March 30, 1942No. 90Published

1Opinion of the Court

McCluskey, P. J.,

Motion to take off a compulsory nonguit.

On a motion for compulsory nonsuit all the facts which a jury could find from the evidence on the record are conceded: Munn et al. v. The Mayor, &c., of Pittsburgh, 40 Pa. 364 (1861) ; Deemer et al. v. Weaver, Executrix, 324 Pa. 85, 87 (1936) ; Donze et al. v. Devlin, 329 Pa. 1, 2 (1938). Plaintiff is given the benefit of all favorable intendments and every inference that a jury might draw from the evidence in his favor: Stinson v. Smith et al., 329 Pa. 177, 181 (1938). The credibility of plaintiff’s witnesses must be assumed: see Lucas…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Deemer v. Weaver, Exrx.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1936
  2. Stinson v. SmithSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
  3. Lucas v. BushkoSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1934
  4. Donze v. DevlinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
  5. Munn & Barton v. MayorSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1861

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