Player v. Thompson

The lower court granted the defendants’ motion for a non-suit. Plaintiff has appealed. We must decide if more than one reasonable inference can be deduced from the evidence and if the trial judge erred in taking the case from the jury. We are also called upon to determine if excluding an out-of-court admission and other, evidence was proper.

Diane Player was injured in a one-car automobile collision with a mailbox and fence while a guest passenger in an automobile driven by defendant Nancy Carder and owned by defendant Bobby Thompson. The guardian ad litem in behalf of the minor Diane Player…