Court Opinion

ID: 9639010
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:01:28.472815+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:05:01.854889
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HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge
(concurring specially).
Under the undisputed evidence, the negligence of Miss Lowry was so clear and so' great as almost to require an instruction that it was the sole proximate cause of the injury. It was, however, not quite sufficient since there was some evidence from which it might be found that the negligence of defendant, though slight in comparison with hers, contributed to her injury. In these circumstances, in accordance with settled law,1 the verdict should not have been directed for defendant, but the case should have gone to the jury under appropriate instructions, including an instruction that plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence as matter of law. I, therefore, concur in the reversal.

 Stringfellow v. Atlantic Coast Line, 5 Cir., 64 F.2d 173, Id., 290 U.S. 322, 54 S.Ct. 175, 78 L.Ed. 339; Id., 5 Cir., 67 F.2d 1012.