Wilson v. Derrickson

Wolcott, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment for the defendants in an action for personal injuries, entered at the direction of the trial court at the close of the plaintiff’s casé. The plaintiff’s brief sets out two questions for our consideration but in reality we think they are basically the same, i.e., did the plaintiff establish a prima facie case by either direct or circumstantial evidence which required the submission of the issue of defendants’ negligence to the jury.

The record shows that the plaintiff made the following factual showing: The plaintiff is a woman, a paper hanger by…