Case Name: Wilford Lee KING, Appellant, v. JACKSONVILLE COACH COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1959-05-28
Citations: 114 So. 2d 224
Docket Number: No. A-393
Parties: Wilford Lee KING, Appellant, v. JACKSONVILLE COACH COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
Judges: WIGGINTON, Acting Chief Judge, CARROLL, DONALD K., J., and FUSSELL, CARROLL W., Associate Judge, concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 114
Pages: 224–225

Head Matter:
Wilford Lee KING, Appellant, v. JACKSONVILLE COACH COMPANY, a corporation, Appellee.
No. A-393.
District Court of Appeal of Florida. First District.
May 28, 1959.
On Rehearing July 7, 1959.
Hall, Hartwell & Douglass, Tallahassee, Will O. Murrell, Jr., S. Perry Penland, and Arthur T. Boone, Jacksonville, .for appellant.
Rogers, Towers, Bailey & Jones, J. Edwin Gay, G. Frank Godfrey, and C. D. Towers, Jr., Jacksonville, for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this automobile-bus collision case, after the jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff, the defendant filed a motion for judgment in accordance with its motion for directed verdict or, in the alternative, a motion for a new trial. The circuit court entered an order, which is appealed from herein, granting the motion for judgment but not ruling on the alternative motion for new trial. We think the evidence at the trial was sufficient to make applicable the doctrine of last clear chance, and that there were questions of fact under that doctrine which were properly for the determination of the jury. A motion for directed verdict was not properly grantable and we, therefore, reverse the order appealed from, with directions to consider and determine the said alternative motion for a new trial.
WIGGINTON, Acting Chief Judge, CARROLL, DONALD K., J., and FUSSELL, CARROLL W., Associate Judge, concur.