Seaboard Coast Line Railroad v. Harris

Eberhardt, Judge.

Appellant urges that the evidence did not authorize the verdict, and that the plaintiff failed to carry her burden of proving the negligence charged by a preponderance of the evidence. There is conflict in much of the testimony, and a verdict for the defendant railroad would have been authorized if the jury had viewed the evidence as requiring such a verdict from them in the performance of their duty. But the fact that the record may indicate that the evidence preponderated in favor of the losing party is not a sufficient basis, on appeal, to set the verdict aside. The trial…