Crawford v. City of Meridian

On the former appeal in this case it was held that a peremptory instruction for the defendant was improper. Crawford v. City of Meridian, 154 So. 888. On the second trial, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. We are required, therefore, to examine the instructions granted at the request of defendant, and assigned as error.

Several of these- instructions charged the jury that the plaintiff must mate out her case by a clear preponderance of the evidence, whereas the law in such a case is that the burden on the plaintiff is that she shall prove her case by a preponderance of the…