Reginald Law v. Virginia Stage Lines, Inc., a Corporation

McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from a jury award of $6,-000 in a negligence case challenges the District Court’s grant of a motion for judgment non obstante veredicto and, alternatively, for a new trial because of the insufficiency of the evidence to support the jury finding of liability. The record suggests that the trial court was disposed to grant appellee’s request for a directed verdict at the close of the evidence but deferred to repeated admoni*992tions from this court that the better practice in such situations is to let the case go to the jury and, if it finds liability, to set it…