Lane v. Scott

The dispositive issue on this appeal is whether, as a matter of the law of the case, appellant Thomas Lane was a joint tort-feasor hable in damages for the wrongful death of Eugene Scott.

The motion for judgment was filed by the decedent’s mother, administratrix of his estate, against Lane and Carl E. Colvin, Jr. * After both parties had rested, the trial court found that “[tjhere isn’t too much dispute in the direct evidence” but that the “inferences and conclusions from the evidence do differ making it. . .a proper case for the jury”. Upon that finding, the court overruled both motions to…