New Deal Cab Co. v. Meyer

CARROLL, DONALD K., Chief Judge.

The defendant has appealed from a final judgment entered against it by the Circuit Court for Duval County upon a jury verdict in an automobile accident case.

The crux of the appellant’s contention on this appeal is that the manifest weight and probative force of the evidence at the trial was such that the jury could not have lawfully found that the defendant was guilty of negligence, and that the plaintiff was not guilty of contributory negligence, proximately causing the plaintiff’s injuries.

The evidence adduced at the trial showed that immediately before the…