Ahern v. Eldrebge Brewing Co.

By its motion to dismiss the petition at the close of the evidence and its subsequent motion to set aside the “verdict,” the defendant clearly raised the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the essential finding of fact made by the trial court, which reads as follows: “I find that death was due to coronary thrombosis aggravated by excitement and strain occasioned by Mr. Ahern going into the tun much earlier than was the practice and without dissipating the gas as instructed and so encountering a greater density of the pungent and suffocating gas than usual and that said…