Burt v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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1. ““ * * * For example, what does it benefit a party that there is no evidence to support a jury finding that the opposite party did not commit a negligent act? Before a party is entitled to have a judgment based on the answer reversed and judgment rendered in his favor it must appear that the evidence establishes conclusively that the act was committed. • In this situation it would be much better to forget the words ‘no evidence’ and assert in the point of error, as well as in the basic procedural steps in the trial court, that the evidence establishes conclusively, or as a matter of law, that the act was committed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Donaghey v. Van Cleave