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Green v. Smith

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Jun 5, 1951
232 P.2d 406 (Okla. 1951)

Opinion

No. 34852.

June 5, 1951.

(Syllabus.)

1. NEGLIGENCE — Question for jury. Negligence is always a question for the jury when reasonable men may differ as to the facts or as to the inferences to be drawn therefrom.

2. APPEAL AND ERROR — Sufficiency of conflicting evidence. In an action of legal cognizance, the verdict of the jury as to questions of fact will not be disturbed upon appeal though the evidence is in conflict, if there is any evidence reasonably tending to support the verdict.

Appeal from Superior Court, Creek County; Herbert L. Arthurs, Judge.

Action for damages for personal injuries sustained in automobile collision brought by Jack W. Smith, as plaintiff, against Paul L. Green, Yellow Transit Company, a corporation, and Massachusetts Bonding Insurance Company, as defendants. From a verdict and judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Affirmed.

Pierce, Rucker, Mock, Tabor Duncan, Tulsa, for plaintiffs in error.

Ed Chapman, Bristow, and Rosenstein, Fist, Shidler Webb, Tulsa, for defendant in error.


Jack W. Smith brought this action in the superior court of Creek county against the defendants, Paul L. Green, Yellow Transit Company, a corporation, and Massachusetts Bonding Insurance Company to recover damages for personal injuries. The trial resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff and against the defendants. The defendants have appealed.

This companion case to Green et al. v. Burns, 204 Okla. 415, 230 P.2d 892. The plaintiff in the present case was the driver of the car in which the plaintiff in the above-cited case was a passenger when the collision described in the above case occurred. The facts, as to the negligence on the part of defendants, in each case, are the same and reference is hereby made to the above case for a full statement of the facts.

The only proposition presented in the present case is that "defendants' motion for a new trial should have been sustained." This question was fully discussed in the above-cited case and the law of this case is governed by the rules of law set forth in the cited companion case.

Judgment affirmed.

ARNOLD, C.J., and CORN, GIBSON, HALLEY, and JOHNSON, JJ., concur. O'NEAL, J., dissents.


Summaries of

Green v. Smith

Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Jun 5, 1951
232 P.2d 406 (Okla. 1951)
Case details for

Green v. Smith

Case Details

Full title:GREEN et al. v. SMITH

Court:Supreme Court of Oklahoma

Date published: Jun 5, 1951

Citations

232 P.2d 406 (Okla. 1951)
232 P.2d 406

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