Gordon v. Sprott

The assignments of error presented on this appeal pivot on the exceptions to the rulings of the trial court in denying defendants’ motions, aptly made, for judgment as of nonsuit. If it be conceded that there is sufficient evidence to support a finding by the jury that defendants were negligent in the respects alleged, it is clear that, as a matter of law, upon plaintiff’s own testimony, she was guilty of negligence which was at least a proximate cause of the injury of which she complains. If a plaintiff’s negligence is one of the proximate causes of the injury, it is sufficient to defeat…