The plaintiff urges that it was a question of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court, whether the contract was simply to secure reasonable prices, or to extort from the public unreasonable prices. The Green Bag - Page 911904Full view - About this book
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 1154 pages
...or to extend credit on the faith or such holding out, is, as in other cases of estoppels in pais, a question of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court. (Syllabus by the Court) Appeal from circuit court, Putnam county; James M. Baker, Judge. Action by... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1016 pages
...Mallia" differ only in spelling, hut have the same sound; whether they are thus sounded alike is a question of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court. 11 Gray, 322. ifr. Frank J. Buker, County Attorney, for the Slate. Virgin, J., delivered the opinion... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1278 pages
...agent, or whether JS Anderson held himself out as a partner In business with LB Anderson, were questions of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court. A finding for the plaintiffs, Blass & Co., would have been sustained without hesitation. But there... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 974 pages
...business, whether it was leased by him for the company, or for his own private purposes, were questions of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court. We cannot presume there was an omission of material testimony, and make the record's silence a predicate... | |
| Indiana - Law - 1888 - 1024 pages
...refused. — Shinn v. State, 68 Ind. 423. 3. Whether certain labor on Sunday Is a work of necessity, is a question of fact for the jury, and not of law for the Court. — Edgerton v. State, 67 Ind. 588. 4. Under the corresponding section of the Act of 1852, it was helo... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 736 pages
...964 ; 7 So. Rep., 729. COCKRILL, CJ It was settled in the former appeal in this case that it was a question of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court, to determine whether the deceased, who was a country-reared lad of narrow experience, knew that service... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 692 pages
...assumed to pay the amount due the plaintiff under his contract: but t2) that this was an inference of fact for the jury and not of law for the Court, and it was error to instruct the jury that the law implied a promise to pay from these facts. Ibid.... | |
| Horace Gay Wood - Landlord and tenant - 1888 - 858 pages
...fraudulently or not, and the presumption that the alteration was made after the execution of the note is one of fact for the jury, and not of law for the court. In Wicker v. Pope, 12 Rich. (SC) 387, it was held that whether an instrument was altered or not is... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 684 pages
...delivered to the plaintiff. We do not agree with counsel in this contention, but think the question was one of fact for the jury and not of law for the court. The plaintiff was only fourteen years of age at the 4 her mother died. It is fairly inferable from... | |
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