... that in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury can properly proceed to find a verdict for the party... The Supreme Court Reporter - Page 4401885Full view - About this book
| 1869 - 972 pages
...Womfnvell (15) — has established a more (16) 38 Law J. R*p. (NB ) Exch. 8. reasonable rule, viz., that, in every case, before the evidence is left to...producing it, upon -whom the onus of proof is imposed. If, therefore, the plaintiffs' evidence in this case was such that the Judge ought to have considered... | |
| Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee, Edmund F. Moore - 1864 - 604 pages
...properly find a verdict, as the Judge ought to have directed a nonsuit ; and, as in every case before evidence is left to the jury there is a preliminary...question for the Judge, not whether there is literally any evidence, but whether there is any evidence upon which a jury can properly proceed to find a verdict... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1876 - 696 pages
...question for the judge, not whether there is literally no * 14 Wallace, 448. Opinion of the court. evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury...producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed. The English cases there cited fully sustain the proposition,* and the decisions of this court have... | |
| 1869 - 370 pages
...useful as expressing the practiral differeuee The moderu rule as to nonsuit is that in every ease hefore the evidence is left to the jury there is a preliminary question for the jndge, not whether there is literally no evident», hut whether there is any upon whi,-ha Jury can... | |
| 1875 - 438 pages
...Improvement Company v. M unson, 14 Wall. 418, recent decisions of high authority have established the rule that in every case, before the evidence is left to...evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury cau properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the emu* of proof is imposed.... | |
| 1883 - 548 pages
...reasonable rule, to wit, that before the evidence is left to the jury, there is or may be in every case a preliminary question for the judge, not whether...literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which n jury can properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the burden of proof... | |
| 1892 - 554 pages
...it to the jury ; but recent decisions of high anthority have established the more reasonable rule, that in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the jndge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether there is any upon which a jury can properly... | |
| 1883 - 552 pages
...evidence is left to the jury, there may be in every case, a preliminary question for the presiding judge, not whether there is literally no evidence,...whether there is any upon which a jury can properly find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the burden of proof is imposed. Cotton v. Wood,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1871 - 726 pages
...to the jury, but that a course of recent decisions has established a more reasonable rule, to wit, that in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is or may be a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there is literally no evidence, but whether... | |
| Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 pages
...(most of which are referred to in Ryder v. Wombwell)1 has established a more reasonable rule, viz., that in every case, before the evidence is left to...party producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed."2 It remains to add, that where the judge misconceives his duty, and presents the question... | |
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