Hanks v. Norfolk & Western R. R.

The appeal presents for review the rulings on the motions for nonsuit and the exception to exclusion of defendant’s evidence offered to show the character of the deceased and his disinclination to provide for dependent members of his family.

*182The defendant stressfully contends that its motion for judgment of nonsuit should have been allowed, if not at the close of plaintiff’s evidence, then certainly at the close of all the evidence. Authorities may be found which lend support to the rulings below, and others which seem to point in the opposite direction. It is clearly a border-line case. Quinn…