Purser v. Thompson

W. G. Purser bias appealed in error to this court after his motion for a new trial was overruled and judgment rendered upon a jury verdict for $12,000 in favor of Clifford Thompson, Administrator of1 the estate of his deceased brother, Harold D. Thompson. By the assignments it is insisted there was no evidence to take the case to the jury on the .issue of defendant’s liability and that, under the undisputed evidence, plaintiff’s intestate was guilty of proximate contributory negligence.

At the conclusion of all the evidence defendant’s motion for a directed verdict was sustained as to all of…