Opinion ID: 663165
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Heading: Denial of Motion for Judgments For Defendant as a Matter of Law

Text: 55 After carefully reviewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs, and in light of our holding that the district court made no evidentiary errors, we determine that there existed evidence upon which a reasonable jury could properly have reached its decision. Rajala v. Allied Corp., 919 F.2d 610, 615 (10th Cir.1990), cert. denied, 500 U.S. 905, 111 S.Ct. 1685, 114 L.Ed.2d 80 (1991). Even though MoPac produced two eyewitnesses who testified to seeing Julia Ann Turnbull drive around the lowered gates, the evidence did not point in only one direction. See Aguinaga v. United Food & Commercial Workers Int'l Union, 993 F.2d 1463, 1469 (10th Cir.1993). The physical evidence in particular did not support only one conclusion on causation. Moreover, from the viewpoint of the jury, the eyewitnesses' testimony was partially discredited by the witnesses' admissions that they neither saw nor heard the actual collision. The jury could also have rejected the accuracy of the Noltkampers' testimony because the witnesses viewed the accident in the dark of night from a substantial distance away from the crossing.