Barker v. Portland Traction Co.

This is an appeal by the defendant from a judgment in the amount of $9,000 which was entered in favor of the plaintiff after a jury had returned a verdict in his favor. The verdict and the judgment were based upon an injury which the plaintiff suffered December 6, 1942, and upon an averment that the injury was the result of negligence committed by the plaintiff’s employer, the defendant.

The appellant presents eight assignments of error. The first is:

“The trial court erred in refusing to direct a verdict in favor of the appellant.”

The second challenges the declination of the trial judge to…