Biggs v. Bear

This is a personal injury action in which the court directed a verdict of not guilty and entered judgment thereon.

To test the court’s action we must assume plaintiff’s evidence to be true, favor her strongly in drawing legal inferences and consider then whether there is any evidence tending to prove the elements of her case. Under the issues plaintiff was required to prove that defendants violated a duty to warn her, their guest, of a dangerous arrangement of doors in their kitchen; and that while exercising due care and as a result of defendants’ failure to warn her, and their further…