 | 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
...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 in .... | |
 | 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
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1899 - 640 páginas
...recited in the seventh and eighth specifications respectively. It would have been error to have withdrawn the case from the jury and direct a verdict for the defendant. The fourth, fifth and sixth specifications allege error in portions of the charge recited therein respectively.... | |
 | 1877 - 1004 páginas
...evidence relating to the execution, destruction, and contents of the deeds, it was not error to withdraw the case from the jury and direct a verdict for the defendant. — Gardner et at. v. McLallan, Sup. Ct. 1'a., "WNC, Nov. 2!l, p. 435. ELKCTIONS. — Ballots cast... | |
 | 1894 - 2074 páginas
...the force of that rule as expressed in those requests. The plain effect was to practically withdraw the case from the jury, and direct a verdict for the defendant. This he seemed loath to do. The judge must not invade the province of the jury. Where the line of demarcation... | |
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As to the motion of the defendant, at the close of the testimony on both sides, to take the case from the jury, and direct a verdict for the defendant, we are of opinion that the case was, on the evidence, one for the jury. 
