Golceff v. Sugarman

In this action to recover damages for personal injuries the court, at the close of plaintiff’s case, granted defendant’s motion for a nonsuit, and plaintiff appeals from the subsequently entered judgment. Upon consideration of the entire record, and of the authorities governing courts in passing on such motions, we are of the view that plaintiff’s evidence was sufficient to require submission of the case to the jury, and that the judgment should be reversed.

A trial court must deny a motion for a nonsuit at the close of plaintiff’s case “if there is . . . any substantial evidence, which, with…