Kemp v. Lormer

From a judgment for defendant entered on a verdict directed at the close of plaintiff’s case, and from an order overruling a motion for a new trial, plaintiff appealed on questions of law. The journal entry does- not state the basis on which the court made the direction, but from the bill of exceptions it appears that in doing so it said “that there is no evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant.”

Plaintiff contends that; there was error in the rejection of evidence and in directing the verdict.

In December 1946, plaintiff, James Kemp, and the Lormer family, including the son Robert,…