 | 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 - 1907 - 832 páginas
...BILLS v. AW STEVENS Co. 519 assigned and cannot be considered. No exception was taken to the court's refusal to take the case from the jury and direct a verdict for the defendant, which fact would dispose of the third assignment; but, if it had been otherwise, material facts were... | |
 | 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 - 1890 - 808 páginas
...both inclusive. The fourteenth assignment relates to the ruling of the court on the defendant's motion to take the case from the jury, and direct a verdict for the defendant. The denial of this motion was proper. The case was clearly one for the jury. When the reporter, Wakefield,... | |
 | 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 - 1890 - 816 páginas
...rested its case upon the testimony of the plaintiff, putting in no evidence, and requested the court to take the case from the jury, and direct a verdict for the defendant, upon three grounds: 1. That no negligence on the part of the defendant had been shown. 2. That the... | |
 | 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 - 1909 - 812 páginas
...jury that the defendant had had the benefit of the use and occupation of the property. I think I will take the case from the jury and direct a verdict for the defendant. Gentlemen of the jury, the plaintiffs have rested their case, and it appears to the court that the... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1860 - 716 páginas
...the case, in regard to the admissibility of testimony; it is impro]>er for the judge, at the circuit, to take the case from the jury and direct a verdict for the plaintiff subject to the opinion of the court at a general term. Such a direction is admissible only... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - 1869 - 444 páginas
...they are sach as might have been used honestly and bonS fide by the defendant, the judge may withdraw the case from the jury and direct a verdict for the defendant. The defendant, in a privileged communication, described the conduct of the plaintiff as " most disgraceful... | |
 | New York (State), John Townshend - 1870 - 896 páginas
...the сазе in regard to the admissibility of testimony, it is improper for the judge at the circuit to take the case from the jury and direct a verdict for the plaintiff subject to the opinion of the court at general term (Stckett v. Spencer, 29 Barb. 180; Purchase... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1872 - 762 páginas
...they are such as might have been used honestly and bona fide by the defendant, the Judge may withdraw the case from the jury, and direct a verdict for the defendant. (c) The defendant, in a privileged communication, described the plaintiff 's conduct as " most disgraceful... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1872 - 778 páginas
...they are such as might have been used honestly and bona fide by the defendant, the Judge may withdraw the case from the jury, and direct a verdict for the defendant, (c) The defendant, in a privileged communication, described the plaintiff's conduct as " most disgraceful... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1911 - 668 páginas
...At the conclusion of the plaintiff's testimony a motion was made by defendant's counsel to withdraw the case from the jury and direct a verdict for the defendant, which the court then declined to do, but at the conclusion of all the evidence the motion was renewed... | |
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the testimony being all in, defendant moved the court here to take the case from the jury, and direct a verdict for the defendant;" that the motion was overruled by the court; and that the defendant excepted to such ruling. 
