Hanley v. Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Co.

*283The following opinion was filed December 3, 1935 :

Fowuer, J.

The defendant claims that its motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict should have been granted because the jury’s findings respecting'the jerking of the streetcar in stopping are not supported by the evidence. Its contention is that there is no negligence unless the jerking of the car was unusual, and that statements of witnesses that it was unusual are not sufficient to support a finding to that effect, unless they are accompanied by evidence of physical facts showing that it was so. While there are cases holding, as stated…