Gulf Life Insurance Co. v. Braswell

Townsend, Judge.

In both the general grounds of the motion for new trial and in the motion for a judgment notwith-r standing the verdict it is contended that a verdict in favor' of the defendant was demanded by the evidence for the reason that the evidence conclusively established that the plaintiff’s loss of his limb was due, not to the blister which constituted his accidental bodily injury, but to diabetic gangrene, or at least that a finding was demanded that the diabetes so contributed to the loss as to preclude recovery. The danger of the development of gangrene in the lower extremeties…