Dooley v. Saunders U-Drive Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Campbell, Chancellor.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff below, who, while crossing a highway, was struck and injured by an automobile operated by one Philip Canizza, one of the defendants below. The Saunders U-Drive Company alone appeals from the judgment and assigns three grounds why such judgment should be reversed.

The first of these grounds is that the trial court erred in refusing to nonsuit the plaintiff.

The only reason advanced upon this motion was that the plaintiff below was guilty of negligence, as a matter of law,…