Channell v. Sampson’s Empirical Analysis
108 F.2d 315 · 1939
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 1966
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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“Passing upon the motion for a directed verdict, the trial judge had to exercise a judgment on the facts in determining whether there was substantial evidence from which it would not be unreasonable for the jury to infer negligence. Similarly, in reviewing the trial judge's action on such a motion, the appellate court must exercise a judgment on the facts, but from a less advantageous viewpoint. In this case, for example, the testimony of one of the eyewitnesses was an elaboration of diagrams which he was drawing on a blackboard in the courtroom, and read in print the testimony is quite unintelligible. In many borderline cases, the appellate court might uphold a ruling either way, because it could not say, from a reading of the cold record, that the trial judge was clearly wrong in his judgment as to the sufficiency of the evidence. The present might indeed be such a case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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