By the admissions in the pleadings and the stipulations, plaintiff made a prima facie case. It then became the duty of defendants to go forward with the evidence to rebut such case. Since on all the evidence reasonable minds could differ on the question of whether defendants were negligent, it was not the province of the court to arrest the case from the jury and direct a verdict for plaintiff.
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