Corley v. Russell

In this opinion we conveniently refer to the plaintiff in error as “the plaintiff” and to the defendant in error as “the defendant,” they having occupied those respective relationships to the case in the trial court.

The only general ground of the motion for new trial insisted upon in this court is that the verdict was without evidence to support it. The ground is without merit, but in reviewing it the question of whether the evidence demanded a verdict for the defendant is considered. The evidence barely authorized the submission of the case to the jury, but there was some evidence, though…