Peters v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.

Upon its appeal to this Court defendant, the Great A. & P. Tea Company, relies chiefly upon its assignment of error based upon its exception to the refusal of the court to allow its motion for judgment as of nonsuit at the close of all the evidence. C. S., 567. The liability of this defendant for damages sustained by both plaintiffs and defendant, Hugh Puckett, must be determined in the first instance by whether or not there was evidence sufficient to be submitted to the jury-tending to show that at the time of the collision Chas. H. Baucom, assistant superintendent of said defendant, was…