Burgess v. Cahill

Plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment for the defendant H. P. Garin Co. entered pursuant to a directed verdict. No appeal was taken from the separate judgments entered for the plaintiffs against the other defendants.

The settled rule is that a court may direct a verdict only when, disregarding conflicting evidence and giving plaintiffs ’ evidence all the value to which it is legally entitled, *322indulging in every legitimate inference which may be drawn therefrom, the result is a determination that there is no evidence of sufficient substantiality to support a verdict in favor of the…