Pennsylvania Railroad v. Chamberlain

How courts have described this case

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• providing that a jury verdict cannot \rest[ ] upon mere speculation and conjecture\
• providing that a jury verdict cannot “rest[] upon mere speculation and conjecture”
• explaining further how testimony about a fact based only on “an inference or inferences” cannot controvert testimony, based on personal observation, that is “inconsistent with such inferences”
• explaining further how testimony about a fact based only on “an inference or inferences” cannot controvert testimony, based on personal observation, that is “inconsistent with such inferences”
• when evidence supports two inconsistent inferences, “judgment, as a matter of law, must go against the party upon whom rests the necessity of sustaining one of these inferences ... ”
• “[W]here there is a direct conflict of testimony upon a matter of fact, the question must be left to the jury to determine, without regard to the number of witnesses upon either side.”

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