 | 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 - 780 pages
...being 11, 12, 19, 27, 20, 28, 21, 22, 2-3, and 24. The eleventh error assigned is to the refusal of the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for the defendant. In support of this request it is claimed that there is no testimony which tends to prove that Hall... | |
 | 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 - 782 pages
...look alone to Conner and the property in his hands for its payment. The counsel for the defendants requested the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for their clients, and they contend here that there was no evidence in the case competent to be submitted... | |
 | 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 - 1894 - 778 pages
...Upon the trial the defendant introduced no evidence, and upon the plaintiff's own case its counsel requested the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for it, on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to employ a watchman in accordance with the terms of... | |
 | 1868 - 662 pages
...the contrary that the treatment was in all respects judicious and proper. The testimony having been closed the counsel for the defendant requested the...for the defendant on the ground that whatever might nave been the actual cause of death, it appeared indisputably that the treatment resorted to was, under... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1871 - 636 pages
...been given, at the trial, on the part of both the prosecution and the defence, and the evidence was closed, the counsel for the defendant requested the Court to instruct the jury to acquit the defendant, the ground of the request being that the evidence was such as not to warrant... | |
 | Abraham Lansing - 1872 - 648 pages
...the testimony on behalf of the people, and at the close of the trial, the counsel for the prisoner requested the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for the defendant, on the ground of a variance between the indictment and proof as to the property alleged to have been taken,... | |
 | 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 - 1899 - 612 pages
...the witness, and not a statement of a fact within his knowledge. The ruling of the court was correct. Counsel for the defendant requested the court to instruct the jury to the effect that the plaintiff assumed the risk incident to his employment, and that it was the duty... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1882 - 642 pages
...and the Court excluded it, and the defendant excepted. The defendant then rested. The defendant then requested the Court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the affidavit of the assessors did not comply with the statute in the respect before set... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1883 - 636 pages
...the defendant had no benefit of any part of the proceeds of said instruments. The defendant thereupon requested the Court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for the defendant, or to dismiss the action, upon the ground that the said instruments are not promissory notes negotiable... | |
 | Franklin Hubbell Mackey, District of Columbia. Supreme Court - 1883 - 712 pages
...junior, of the second part, on his demand." Thereupon, the evidence being closed, the defendant asked the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for the defendant, which being granted , a verdict was so rendered. W. WILLOUGHBY for plaintiff : It was contended by... | |
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The first question presented by the plaintiff in error is founded upon an exception to the refusal of the court to instruct the jury to render a verdict for the... 
