Hutton v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

PEARSON, Associate Justice.

The appellants here were plaintiffs below, who recovered jury verdicts against the appellees, who were defendants below. In this opinion, the parties shall be referred to as they stood in the trial court. After rendition of verdicts, the trial court granted defendants’ motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdicts, set qside the -Verdicts,. *529and entered final judgment for the defendants. From that final judgment, this appeal is prosecuted.

In entering judgment for the defendants, notwithstanding the jury’s verdicts for the plaintiffs, the learned trial judge…