Alberti v. Gordon

The state of the evidence at the close of the trial was such as to require a directed verdict in defendant’s favor. This becomes apparent from a consideration of the testimony offered by the plaintiff in support of her claim that the severance of the seventh or facial nerve caused her paralysis. It appears that infection, thrombosis, and injury to the facial nerve in an operation are among the causes of facial paralysis. The plaintiff sought to show that a certain one of these several possible causes was more probable than any of the others as the cause of her difficulty. Her case rests upon…