Griffin v. Louisville Taxicab & Transfer Co.

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Cammaok

Reversing.

•• i The appeal is from a; directed verdict in favor of the ■Louisville Taxicab & Transfer Company at the conclusion of the evidence offered by the appellant, Lawrence William Griffin. Griffin’s position is that his case should have been submitted to the jury.

The action is based upon the charge that one of the appellee’s employees, not the driver of the cab, closed the door of a cab on Griffin’s right hand as he was entering it. Griffin, a member of the armed forces, who was receiving treatment to a finger on his left hand in an Army hospital,…