Moncol v. Board of Education

The Court of Appeals held that a directed verdict should have been granted appellees, James W. Loder and James W. Loder School Bus Company, by the trial court due to the failure of the appellants to produce evidence of negligence and proximate cause attributable to appellees.

Appellants theorized at trial that they had suffered a loss of property, that someone was negligent in causing a fire and that the loss of their property occurring as a consequence of that fire dictated a recovery against one or more of the numerous defendants joined in their cause of action. Since a jury verdict was…