Sprinkle v. Davis

SOPER, Circuit Judge.

Mose E. Davis, plaintiff in the District .Court, lost a leg as the result of an accident on July 2, 1937, on a public highway between the cities of Lynchburg and Roanoke, when he was struck by an automobile driven by Ralph Elliott Sprinkle, the defendant. In the action for negligence which followed, the jury rendered a verdict for $10,000 in the plaintiff’s favor, and the defendant brings this appeal complaining of certain rulings of the court of which the principal was the refusal of the court to direct a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff had…