| Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1912 - 970 pages
...case went to trial before a jury and at the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff the court directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant, EH Childers. After this, the trial proceeded as to the defendant, Robert Childers, with the result... | |
| Vermont. Supreme Court - 1846 - 798 pages
...court decided that there was such a record as was set forth in the defendant's first plea in bar, and directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. Exceptions by plaintiff. Tracy Sf Converse for plaintiff. In order to make the former judgment a bar,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1891 - 790 pages
...similar statutes, cited by defendant's counsel in his brief, it is contended that the court should have directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant for the reasons: 1. That the action is assumpsit. 2. That, whether it is in assinnpsit or is an action... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1892 - 830 pages
...eject the plaintiff from the place he unlawfully attempted to occupy and hold, the court should have directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. & The judgment of the court below must be reversed, with costs of both courts. No new trial will be... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1917 - 772 pages
...jury Prohibition against Dist. Ct. Salt Lake Co. until directed to do so by the Supreme Court, but had directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. The latter verdict was therefore held to be the only verdict in the case, and in view that that verdict... | |
| 1906 - 1122 pages
...conclusion of the plaintiff's evidence, which tended to prove the facts above recited, the Circuit Court directed the jury to return a verdict In favor of the defendant This proceeding In error is prosecuted to review the Judgment rendered upon the verdict so returned.... | |
| 1897 - 1152 pages
...defendant to the introduction of testimony because the complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The court sustained...sufficiency of the pleadings by the plaintiff. The complaint sets out the corporate capacity of the plaintiff and the defendant, and that Newsom and wife were the... | |
| 1897 - 1158 pages
...defendant to the introduction of testimony because the complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The court sustained...general demurrer had been interposed by defendant to t lie complaint, and overruled by the court. It will be observed that the question presented here is... | |
| 1886 - 744 pages
...in the same court, upon the same charge, in January, 1885, Judge Noonan, after lengthy deliberation, directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant, he declaring the act in question to be unconstitutional, and this, too, in the face of a decision of... | |
| 1907 - 1150 pages
...raised on the record. At the conclusion of the testimony the trial court granted an instruction which directed the Jury to return a verdict In favor of the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff had been guilty of coutrlbutory négligence. Was that ruling right?... | |
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