Koff v. Johnson

JOHN A. McGUIRE, Superior Court Judge.

This case was brought in the Superior Court of Pima County by Aubrey Joseph Johnson against Leona Creason Koff for the death of plaintiff’s wife which occurred as a result of an automobile accident.

The trial of the case resulted in a directed verdict and judgment in favor of the defendant upon the ground that there was no evidence from which the jury could have found that the defendant’s negligence, if any, was a proximate cause of the accident.

Upon motion for new trial the learned trial judge reached the conclusion that the direction of the verdict had…