Haltom v. McKinley

(after stating the case as above).

The appeal is predicated upon the error claimed to have been committed by the trial court in peremptorily instructing a verdict against the plaintiffs and in favor of the defendants. At the close of the evidence the plaintiffs and the defendants each requested a peremptory instruction to the jury to return a verdict in their favor. It is admitted in the appellants’ brief that: “There is no controverted issue of fact in this case. It is >a matter of the interpretation and construction of the facts according to the recognized and established rules therefor and…