Shay v. Nixon

WEBB, Judge.

The question raised by this appeal is whether the court should have granted the defendants’ motion for a directed verdict at the end of all the evidence. The defendants’ motion for directed verdict should have been allowed if the jury could have drawn no *110conclusion from the evidence but that either the collision was not proximately caused by the negligence of defendant Ralph Edward Nixon, or that the contributory negligence of the plaintiff was a proximate cause of the collision.

The evidence that Ralph Edward Nixon suddenly stopped the taxicab in the inside southbound lane of…