 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 766 pages
...exceptions taken thereunto and filed " with such motion, was made, upon the grounds, among others, that 'the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, and that the court had " erred in the charge to the jury in those portions excepted to by the defendant," and in... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1150 pages
...guess. The first and third assignments may be considered together, and are based upon the contention that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, and that the court erred In giving certain Instructions to the Jury. As to the alleged error In the Instructions,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 894 pages
...by negligence to employee — Case at bar. The facts and proceedings disclosed by the record, show that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, and that a new trial should have been awarded. Error to judgment of circuit court of city of Richmond, rendered... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1060 pages
...judgment for the defendant. Subsequently the plaintiffs filed a motion for a new trial upon the ground that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, and that the court erred in refusinR to give the charges requested by the plaintiffs and the giving of the charges... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1026 pages
...contrary, it appears that the statements with all their details went to the jury before the defense opened. This was error. The third bill of exception...plain case or straight case,' and further stated and «xclaimed: 'Why, JohnI' one or more times when informed that one John Wilson was holding them. That... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1416 pages
...stated and contained in said verdict, being neither plaintiff nor defendant in this prosecution;" and that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence ; and that the instructions aforesaid were erroneous; and also moved in arrest of judgment, for the same reasons,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1128 pages
...Whereupon the defendant moved the court to set aside the verdict, and for a new trial, upon the ground that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, and that the court, by its instructions, had misdirected the jury as to the law. The motion was overruled, and judgment... | |
 | Railroad law - 1904 - 1014 pages
...The defendant moved the court to set aside the verdict and to grant it a new trial upon the ground that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence and that there was no evidence of wantonness and willfulness on the part of the defendant's employees. The Central... | |
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... on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence, and that "the jury, while considering the verdict herein, were improperly and unduly Influenced by the deputy in charge thereof, who stated to them 'that It was a plain case,... 
