Ziegler v. Ford Motor Co.

This is a personal injury action. The defendants appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to a verdict of a jury and from an order of the District Court denying defendants’ alternative motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial. The defendants assert that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict, and also urge error on instructions of the trial court and rulings on questions of evidence.

On February 15, 1935, the plaintiff, who is a Ford dealer, went to a branch of the Ford Motor Company in Fargo, North Dakota for the purpose of obtaining an automobile. He…