Judgment reversed on the law and the facts, and a new trial granted, with costs to abide the event.
The case having been given to the jury under the theories of ordinary negligence and the doctrine of "last clear chance," and the jury having returned a general verdict, both theories must be sustained by the evidence or the verdict must be set aside (Thomas v. Central Greyhound Lines,
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