Alva Wilson v. Capital Airlines

THOMSEN, District Judge.

The question presented by this appeal is whether the district judge erred in directing a verdict for defendant on the ground that there was no evidence legally sufficient to prove any negligence on its part which caused any injury to plaintiff.

In May, 1955, plaintiff was 62 years old and weighed 187 pounds. For three years she bad suffered from a benign giant cell tumor in the bones around the left hip joint, for which she had received medical and surgical attention, including treatment at Memorial Hospital in New York. The bone had been greatly weakened, and was…