Manuel L. Kiner v. Lyla Lee Northcutt

MURRAH, Chief Judge.

The only issue raised on this appeal is whether the trial court correctly directed a verdict for the defendant, a deaf mute, in this action arising out of an intersection automobile collision which left the plaintiff a victim of am nesia. Defendant Northcutt’s motion was originally granted on two grounds, first, that the plaintiff, Kiner, failed to make out a jury case of negligence and, second, that in any event Kiner’s contributory negligence was established as a matter of law. The court later vacated its ruling of contributory negligence as a matter of law and rested…