Jones v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co.

OPINION

VAIDIK, Judge.

Case Summary

In this negligence case, Plaintiff Timothy Jones appeals the trial court’s grant of Defendant Indiana Bell Telephone Company’s d/b/a Ameritech (“Indiana Bell”) Motion for Judgment on the Evidence following Jones’s presentation of the evidence. Concluding that Indiana Bell owed Jones a duty of reasonable care but that Jones’s evidence in this case is not sufficient to establish a breach of that duty, we affirm the trial court’s grant of Indiana Bell’s motion for judgment on the evidence.

Facts and Procedural History

On December 18, 1997, Jones was doing a cable…