Grisso v. Broude

Appeal by plaintiff from an order granting defendant’s motion for a new trial after a jury verdict in her favor in an action for personal injuries sustained by her while riding as a guest in an automobile caused by a collision with an automobile driven by defendant. The motion was granted on two grounds: (1) insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict; and (2) error in law in an instruction as to the contributory negligence, if any, of plaintiff.

The order of the trial court will be reversed only when *636it can be said as a matter of law there is no substantial evidence to support a…