CITY OF MEMPHIS v. USELTON


260 S.W.2d 293 (1953)

CITY OF MEMPHIS et al. v. USELTON.

Court of Appeals of Tennessee, Western Division at Jackson.

Writ Denied June 5, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. C. Crabtree, Wesley Harvell and W. B. Ingram, Jr., Memphis, for plaintiff-in-error.

Harold R. Ratcliff, Memphis, for defendants-in-error.


Writ Denied by Supreme Court June 5, 1953.

SWEPSTON, Judge.

This is an appeal in error by the defendants below from an adverse verdict of the jury and judgment in the amount of $1,250 for personal injuries suffered by the plaintiff by reason of the ignition of escaping gas.

At the conclusion of plaintiff's evidence defendants moved for a peremptory instruction in their favor which was overruled; there was a like motion at the close of all of the evidence...

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