Davis v. Detroit United Railway

This is an action on the case brought to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been sustained by the plaintiff through the negligent operation of defendant’s street car at a street crossing. After the *241court had announced his opinion, at the close of the proofs, that plaintiff could not recover, and had begun to instruct the jury to that effect, plaintiff asked leave to submit to a nonsuit. This request was refused and a verdict directed. Afterwards counsel for plaintiff made a motion for a new trial, on the grounds that the court erred in refusing to grant a nonsuit and in…