Opinion ID: 1206745
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Heading: did the court err in failure to direct a plaintiff's verdict against the defendant hospital?

Text: It did not. The proximate cause of the child's brain damage was strongly controverted by opposing witnesses. In passing on a motion for directed verdict the trial court must consider as true all of the evidence favorable to the party against whom the motion is directed, together with all inferences reasonably drawn therefrom. [1] Upon consideration of such motion the hospital was entitled to the benefit of every reasonable inference in its favor which could be drawn from the evidence. Evidence favorable to the hospital presented by its co-defendants is likewise to be so considered by the trial court in ruling on such motion. Where men of ordinary intelligence might differ as to whether the evidence shows the defendant's negligence to be the proximate cause of the plaintiff's injury, the question is properly one for the jury. [2]