Geiermann v. Detroit International Bridge Co.

These suits for negligence * travel the precarious border of doubt between jury verdict and instructed verdict. The question, as in scores •of like cases appearing in our reports, is whether .actionable negligence on the part of the defendant may be inferred from the testimony taken below. The trial judge, ruling in negation, granted the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict — made at close of plaintiffs’ case — and entered judgment for defendant. The case is here on plaintiffs’ appeal.

In recent months we have grappled anew with the stated question (see Kaminski v. Grand Trunk W. R. Co.,…