American Casualty Co. v. Pearce

SHANNON, Judge.

The appellant was the plaintiff below in a negligence action against the appellee. After the jury had returned a verdict for the appellant, the trial court granted the ap-pellee’s motion for a directed verdict, upon which he previously had reserved ruling and the appellant appealed and assigns as error the granting of such motion. Smith, the appellant-plaintiff below, was a member of the Ft. Myers police force. The ap-pellee-defendant was the employer of Addison and Lampkin. On the night of the accident, Smith, as a member of the police force, had broken up an argument between…