Bundy v. . Powell

Counsel for the defendants conceded with commendable candor on the argument and in their brief that the plaintiff adduced enough evidence on the trial to make the question of actionable negligence on the part of the defendants one for the determination of a jury. For this reason, we pass over this phase of the case, and proceed at once to inquire whether the judgment of nonsuit can be sustained on the ground that the plaintiff’s intestate was contributorily negligent .as a matter of law. The parties join battle on this issue. The plaintiff asks a reversal upon the authority of Cashatt v.…