Ward v. Cumberland County Power & Light Co.

In this action of negligence, the trial Judge at nisi prius ordered the jury to return a verdict for the defendant, and exceptions were reserved.

As is well settled in this jurisdiction, a motion by the defendant for a directed verdict is equivalent to a demurrer to the evidence. *432Exceptions raise the question, not whether there is sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury, but whether upon all the evidence as it appears in the record a verdict for the plaintiff could be permitted to stand. Dyer v. Power & Light Company, 119 Me., 224, 110 A., 357. See also Mills v. Richardson, 126 Me.,…