Jones v. Knotts

Mississippi Supreme Court
Jones v. Knotts, 110 Miss. 590 (Miss. 1915)
70 So. 701
Holden

Jones v. Knotts

Opinion of the Court

Holden, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff in the court below proved a good cause of action by the testimony he offered, and, as there was a conflict in the evidence offered by the plaintiff and the defendants below, the cause should have gone to the jury, and the trial judge erred in granting a peremptory instruction for the appellees.

Therefore the case is reversed.

Reversed and remanded.

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Tbial. Direction of verdict. When proper. Where plaintiff proved a good cause of action by the testimony he offered and there was a conflict in the evidence offered by the plaintiff and defendant, the cause should have gone to the jury, and the trial judge was in error in granting a peremptory instruction for the defendant.