Pedrick v. Peoria & Eastern Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• the right of the parties to have a substantial factual dispute resolved by the jury should be “carefully preserve[d]” where such a dispute exists
• the right of the parties to have a substantial factual dispute resolved by the jury should be “carefully preserve[d]” where such a dispute exists
• a directed verdict is appropriate only where all of the evidence, when viewed in the aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors the movant that no contrary verdict based upon the evidence could ever stand
• a directed verdict is appropriate only where all of the evidence, when viewed in the aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors the movant that no contrary verdict based upon the evidence could ever stand
• a directed verdict is appropriate only where all of the evidence, when viewed in the aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors the movant that no contrary verdict based upon the evidence could ever stand
• “verdicts ought to be directed *** only in those cases in which all of the evidence, when viewed in its aspect most favorable to the opponent, so overwhelmingly favors movant that no contrary verdict based on that evidence could ever stand”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).