Clements v. Ashland Oil, Inc.

LEIBSON, Justice.

This is but another instance of taking hammer and chisel to chip away at the cornerstone in the House of Justice, trial by jury.

A properly instructed jury found that Ashland was negligent and the cause of this tragic accident. We have substituted our findings of fact for those of the jury.

The cases are legion that in negligence cases such as this one the verdict of the jury resolves any conflicts in the testimony and also any conflicts in the reasonable inferences to be drawn from the testimony in favor of the prevailing party, who was Clements. To name but a few: Murphy v.…