 | 1848 - 562 sidor
...DENMAN, CJ now delivered the judgment of the Court. — This was an action on a shipwright's bill. The motion for a new trial was made on the ground that the work was not done for the defendant's benefit, or indeed by his order ; because the vessel had become... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Henry Davison, Herman Merivale - 1844 - 854 sidor
...jury found that the plaintiff was in possession, and returned a verdict in his favour accordingly. A motion for a new trial was made on the ground that the learned judge should not have left merely the question of possession to the jury, but that, as the... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1882 - 834 sidor
...equitable plea plaintiffs demurred, which was sustained and pleas stricken. Plaintiffs having recovered, a motion for a new trial was made on the ground that the court erred in sustaining the demurrer and striking the plea, which motion was overruled and defendants... | |
 | 1851 - 564 sidor
...that case was not bound by the verdict." These were all motions, it should be observed, in which the motion for a new trial was made on the ground that the verdict was against evidence ; and the Court, so far from taking their stand on the immutability cf the rule that... | |
 | 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 - 1914 - 808 sidor
...contributory negligence and any assumption of risk. The objection was sustained and the plaintiff excepted. A motion for a new trial was made, on the ground that the court was in error in excluding this evidence. This motion was denied. The errors assigned in this... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), John McLean - 1856 - 686 sidor
...This is an action of ejectment. On the trial of the case a verdict was found for the defendant, and a motion for a new trial was made, on the ground that the District Judge charged the Jury that the following instrument conveyed the estate of Mackie to Eleanor... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1858 - 744 sidor
...— TERRY, CJ, and BALDWIN, J., concurring. The defendant was convicted of the crime of robbery. A motion for a new trial was made, on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence, and was overruled, and the defendant appealed. It requires a clear case — one... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1860 - 642 sidor
...Supreme Court." Trial by the Court; finding and judgment for the plaintiff for 492 dollars, 68 cents. A motion for a new trial was made on the ground that the amount found by the Court was "excessive," which was overruled, and this raises the principal question... | |
 | Francis Joseph Troubat, William Worthington Haly - 1867 - 670 sidor
...partner against another, before a balance had been struck, a trial had been had on the merits, and a motion for a new trial was made, on the ground that the plaintiff could not recover in indebitatus aasumpsit, the court granted a new trial, on condition that... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1872 - 836 sidor
...that Cook's testimony would have an important effect, on a subsequent trial of the cause. The other motion for a new trial was made on the ground that the verdict was not warranted by the evidence. The following were certified as the facts proved in the cause : Ten... | |
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At once a motion for a new trial was made on the ground that the foregoing rulings of the judge were wrong, and that the truth of the libel was admissible. 
