Worden v. Anthony

The trial court in its memorandum setting aside the verdict, states that it so acted because in its opinion, under the evidence, the jury could not reasonably have found that the defendant was free from negligence which was a proximate cause of the decedent’s injury, and also because the jury could not reasonably have found that such negligence as the decedent was guilty of was a proximate cause of his injury; hence the verdict for the defendant could not reasonably have been rendered by the jury.

The evidential facts of the case are not seriously in controversy, but the contention between the…