Trivelas v. South Carolina Dept. of Transportation

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming the grant of a new trial under the thirteenth juror doctrine after viewing the trial court's order as a whole, coupled with the court's statements
• \[T]hirteenth juror doctrine allows the circuit court judge to grant a new trial absolute when the judge finds the evidence does not justify the verdict.\
• “South Carolina's thirteenth juror doctrine allows the circuit court judge to grant a new trial absolute when the judge finds the evidence does not justify the verdict .”
• \South Carolina's thirteenth juror doctrine allows the [trial] court . . . to grant a new trial absolute when [it] finds the evidence does not justify the verdict\
• \South Carolina's thirteenth juror doctrine allows the circuit court . . . to grant a new trial absolute when the [court] finds the evidence does not justify the verdict.\
• “In a comparative negligence case, the trial court should only determine judgment as a matter of law if the sole reasonable inference which may be drawn from the evidence is that the plaintiffs negligence exceeded fifty percent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).