Carter Coal Co. v. Reynolds

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

The appellee obtained a judgment in the Knox circuit court against the appellant for the sum of $200.00, and the record has been filed in this Court with a motion for an appeal, it being insisted that the judgment is erroneous in several particulars, but under the view which we take of the case it will be necessary to consider but one of the reasons urged, it being that of the refusal of the court to give to the jury an instruction directing it to return a verdict for the defendant made at the close of plaintiff’s testimony and also at the close of…