Case Name: Susan Pope, Admx., v. A. A. Mudge and the Maryland Casualty Co.
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923
Citations: 1 Ohio Law Abs. 468
Docket Number: No. 17760
Parties: Susan Pope, Admx., v. A. A. Mudge and the Maryland Casualty Co.
Judges: Marshall. C. J., Wanamaker, Jones, Matthias, Day and Allen, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 1
Pages: 468–468

Head Matter:
No. 17760
Susan Pope, Admx., v. A. A. Mudge and the Maryland Casualty Co.
Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga county.
VERDICT — (1) Error to direct verdict against plaintiff, ' if some evidence, to support petition — (2). Motion to direct should be overruled, when court is required to consider conflicting evidence.

Opinion:
ROBINSON, J.
1. It is error for the court to direct a verdict against the plaintiff, where, by giving to the evidence the most favorable interpretation toward him which any of the evidence will reasonably warrant, there is some evidence tending to support the allegations o fthe petition.
2. If, in ruling upon a motion to direct a verdict, the court is required to detect the truth from conflicting evidence of the some or different witnesses, the motion should be overruled.
Judgment reversed.
Marshall. C. J., Wanamaker, Jones, Matthias, Day and Allen, JJ., concur.