O'Loughlin v. Erwin M. Jennings Co.

This action was tried to the jury and at the close of the evidence plaintiff and defendant each filed a motion for a directed verdict. The court denied the motion of the defendant and granted that of the plaintiff, directing the jury to bring in a verdict for the plaintiff but leaving it to them to assess the amount of the damages. The defendant appealed from the direction of a verdict for the plaintiff and from the denial of its motion to set the verdict aside, and also from certain rulings on evidence. Plaintiff’s counsel, in their brief, claim that the appeal from the denial of the…