Byas v. Dorsey

This is an appeal by Eleanor Byas, the unsuccessful plaintiff in a negligence suit. Upon the conclusion of testimony in the trial court, she moved for a directed verdict on the grounds that negligence had been established as a matter of law and that the testimony disclosed no evidence of contributory negligence. The court ruled that the defendant was negligent as a matter of law, but submitted the issues of proximate cause, contributory negligence and damages to the jury. A general verdict was returned for the defendant. As her sole grounds for reversal, appellant urges that the record did…