Crockett v. Staples

Exceptions to the direction of a verdict for the defendant are sustained.

The only issue in this tort action arising from a collision between automobiles operated by the plaintiff and the defendant is whether, as a matter of law, the plaintiff must be charged with contributory negligence. In argument the defendant abandoned, and properly so, any claim that the evidence did not present a jury question on the issue of defendant’s negligence.

Under the familiar rule we must determine whether reasonable persons taking the evidence with its inferences in the light most favorable to the plaintiff…