Colvin v. Robertson

E. L. Colvin sued Mrs. L. D. Eobertson to recover damages for personal injuries, and also to recover property damages in the sum of $174.40, occasioned, as it was alleged, by the negligence of Mrs. Eobertson in running through a stop sign at an intersection, and colliding her car with his taxicab.

The defendant, in her answer, admitted that she failed to stop at the stop sign, and that the amount of the property damage was correct, but denied that she caused the plaintiff any personal injuries.

At the conclusion of the evidence, the court gave a peremptory instruction to the jury to find for…