Ingram v. Henry

In Tocld v. Simonis, 370 Mich 342, 1 a negligence case, we reversed a judgment for defendants after jury disagreement, 2 which judgment was based upon the trial judge’s finding that he should have directed a verdict for defendants be cause plaintiff was contributorily negligent as a matter of law. In the process of reversing that judgment, we noted that the standard by which directed verdicts are judged on appeal is whether, upon favorable-to-plaintiff view of the evidence, all reasonable men would agree that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence. In support we cited 5 recent…