Thompson v. Michigan Cab Co.

The sole and controlling question in this appeal arises out of the trial judge’s refusal to direct the jury to return a verdict for the defendants on their claim that plaintiff’s driver was guilty of negligence as a matter of law, or to grant defendants’ motion for a judgment non obstante veredicto.

Plaintiff recovered a verdict for $850 for injuries suffered by her in an automobile collision at the in tersection of North Jenison and West Michigan avenues in the city of Lansing, between the hours of 2 and 3 a. m. on January 29, 1935. Neither of these streets was a through highway but “slow”…