Holborn v. Coombs

If the material incidents of a collision between two cars are so veiled by reason of death of witnesses or their loss of memory that no evidence of any convincing influence can be found pointing to fault in the defendant, the plaintiff, in the nature of things, cannot produce the necessary evidence to form a reasonable basis for a verdict in her favor. Unless under the evidence produced at the trial the respondent has shown that this collision occurred on the east side of the middle of the highway, all her contentions are without support and the basis for the jury’s finding *559of- negligence on…