Most of the tort cases decided by the supreme court during the period covered by this article concerned issues of negligence arising out of automobile accidents. A number of decisions holding that there was sufficient evidence to uphold a jury verdict are omitted from this discussion for reasons of space. The omitted cases tend to affect the inference, which might result from a consideration of the cases reviewed, that the negligence issue can nearly always be -determined as a matter of law. Certain other cases, thought to be of limited importance as precedents, have also been omitted, or are discussed under only one heading although involving several issues.