133 W. Va. 278 - Billy v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 122 W. Va. 522 - Fielder v. Service Cab Co. · 123 W. Va. 234 - Boyce v. Black · 127 W. Va. 131 - Adkins v. Raleigh Transit Co. · 126 W. Va. 943 - Wilson v. Co-Operative Transit Co. · Keathley v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
Most-quoted passages
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“Before directing a verdict in a defendant's favor, every reasonable and legitimate inference favorable to the plaintiff fairly arising from the evidence, considered as a whole, should be entertained by the trial court, and those facts should be assumed as true which the jury may properly find under the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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