Greyhound Lines, Inc. v. Martin

Since the Court of Appeals reversed the trial court because the proof failed to show actionable negligence on the part of the defendant below, it became its obvious and legal duty not to remand the case, but to render final judgment for the defendant. It should have rendered the judgment which the trial court should have rendered by sustaining the motions of the defendant below for a directed verdict in its favor. This procedure was unanimously approved by this court in the first proposition of the syllabus in Majoros v. Cleveland Interurban Rd. Co., ante, 255, 187 N. E., 857. Had the…