Medina v. All American Bus Lines, Inc.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit was for damages for injuries resulting in death. The claim was that plaintiff’s decedent had come to his death as a result of the negligent operation of defendant’s bus. At the conclusion of plaintiff’s evidence, a motion for directed verdict was made and granted. Plaintiff is here insisting that, though the evidence was entirely circumstantial, it was sufficient to make an issue for the jury. Appellee insists that the evidence shows no more than that there was an accident, and that under settled law the proof that an accident occurred is not proof that it…