Southern Ry. Co. v. Hayne

The trial court erred in overruling defendant’s (appellant’s) motion for a new trial. Tlaintiff presented three theories of her case and the jury found with her, but it is our firm conviction that the verdict cannot be sustained on any one of them. The great weight of the evidence points to this conclusion and none other.

Plaintiff, a portly woman 72 years of age and not in robust health, claims to have suffered an injury, a sprain in the muscles of her back, when boarding a train at Atlanta, Ga. According to the testimony of herself and her husband, who was with her, she made no complaint or…