Anderson v. Clinchfield Railroad

The administrators of Cora Hall and Claude Mullins, who were killed at a grade crossing, brought separate actions for death by wrongful act, which were tried together, resulting in verdicts for defendant, the Clinchfield Railroad Company. Plaintiffs in the lower courts obtained these writs of error.

*89At the conclusion of the introduction of evidence, the trial court sustained defendant’s motion to strike. This ruling constitutes the only assignment of error.

Plaintiffs contend that when a trial court eliminates all evidence from consideration by a jury, it invades the province of the jury and…