 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Frederick Watts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 536 pages
...testimony in the case to ba true, the jury ought not to give a verdict for plaintiff. The plaintiff's counsel requested the court to charge the jury, that if they believed the testimony of Edward Ensell, they should find for the plaintiff. Grier, president. — " The plaintiff... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, George Shall Yerger - Law reports, digests, etc - 1836 - 640 pages
...defendant and the sale thereof, had not expired, but had expired at the commencement of this suit. The defendant's counsel requested the court to charge the jury, that if they believed the time for which the plaintiff had let said property on hire, was not expired at the time of the... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1839 - 700 pages
...lauding, and the skiff and flat belonging to the ferry, were at their proper places. The plaintiff's counsel requested the court to charge the jury, that if they believed that the slave was the property of the plaintiff, and that the defendant employed him without the assent... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1844 - 896 pages
...Wilson McKinney, or by a mercantile firm of which he was a partner, in the year 1838. The plaintiff's counsel requested the Court to charge the jury, that if they believed that, at the time the deed from Lea to Wm. H. McKinney was executed, Wilson McKinney, who had paid... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1859 - 796 pages
...which the watch was alleged to have been taken at the time it was taken, that this was prima facie evidence of ownership, and sufficient to sustain that...Court refused to give, and the defendant's counsel exceptetl. The jury found the defendant guilty, and he moved for a ne\v trial on the following grounds... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1841 - 912 pages
...liabilities agi'innt 'which the transfer of the note sued on was intended to indemnify him. The plaintiff's counsel requested the court to charge the jury that if they believed from the evidence that the plaintiff was a Robertson v. Smith. holder of the note for a valuable consideration... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Edward Jordan Dimock, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Louis J. Rezzemini, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1850 - 614 pages
...received the first quarter's rent lie claimed to have authority from Elliott to receive the payment. The defendant's counsel requested the court to charge the jury, that if they found that the plaintiff had leased the premises to Elliott, and that Elliott had underlet them to... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 740 pages
...both parties as to the actual condition of the road during the period embraced in the indictment. The defendant's counsel requested the court to charge the jury that if they found that the road was safe and passable the defendants were not liable to this indictment, notwithstanding... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court, John Anthon - Law reports, digests, etc - 1854 - 442 pages
...dock, which was a trespass for which the plaintiff was, in strictness of law, entitled to damages. The defendant's counsel requested the court to charge the jury, that if they helieved the encroachment had heen occasioned hy the mere sliding of the defendant's dock, they should... | |
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