Ferguson v. City of Seattle

This is an appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict in a personal injury case. It might well be called a borderline case were it not for the fact that the principal question involved lies in a field wherein there is no defined border line. That question is: Was the verdict arrived at through legitimate inference from evidence or by mere speculation? That is one of the most difficult questions which can be presented to an appellate court, since, in the absence of a definite boundary between these two methods of arriving at a conclusion, what one man classifies as legitimate inference is…