Court Opinion

ID: 9624118
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 06:51:32.076658+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:05:38.888734
License: Public Domain

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR,
(specially concurring in part and dissenting in part).
I agree that the judgment entered should be reversed but do *240not agree to the directions given to the trial court as to the further proceedings to be had therein.
In my opinion the parties have had their day in court and defendants’ motion for a directed verdict, made at the close of plaintiff’s case and after the introduction of all of plaintiff’s evidence, should have been granted because of the absence of the necessary proof to establish the contract and cause of action pleaded in plaintiff’s complaint. Because of such failure of proof I would reverse the trial court’s judgment and direct that judgment be entered for defendants.