 | Banks and banking - 1883 - 1322 pages
...found for the plaintiff— damages £300. This was an application on tlie part of the defendant for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and that the verdict was against the evidence. Mr. Willis, QC, was for the plaintiff in support of the verdict : Mr. Finlay, QC, and... | |
 | E. O. Macdevitt - Ireland - 1884 - 588 pages
...tnent to the jury, who found for the plaintiff. The defendant having obtained a conditional order for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. Monroe, Q,c., Ross, QC, and Craig showed cause — The 21st section of the... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 664 pages
...Verdict for defendant on 1st and 5th issues, and for plaintiff on remaining issues. Rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and that the verdict was against the evidence, discharged by the Court of Common Pleas. (Wilde, CJ, Coltman, Maule, Cresswell, JJ.)... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 804 pages
...judge of the want of probable cause, and they found for the defendant accordingly. The motion was made on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. Taylor, for the plaintiff. Bowie, contra. BREVARD, J. I am of opinion this motion ought to be rejected.... | |
 | Robert Stewart Morrison - Mining law - 1887 - 780 pages
...verdict was against evidence. WILDE, CJ, now delivered the judgment of the court This was a motion for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. The facts were shortly these : One Alexander Robinson, in his own name and that of his son, FT Robinson,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1292 pages
...complained of. Lord Denman, in disposing of the motion for a rule nisi made by the defendant for a new trial on the ground of misdirection and that the verdict was against the evidence, said "that upon the facts established the question of negligence was strictly within... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 964 pages
...found for the defendants, and the plaintiffs moved the court to set aside the verdict, ¡md grant a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was contrary to the evidence; but the court overruled the motion and gave judgment according to the finding... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1024 pages
...jury found for the defendants, and the plaintiffs moved the court to set aside the verdict and grant a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and that the verdict was contrary to the evidence ; but the court overruled the motion and gave judgment according to the finding... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Agency (Law) - 1896 - 1100 pages
...plaintiffs, or with Messrs. Seebeck, Wolff, & Co. The jury found for the defendant. Sutt, QC, moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. BLACKBURN, J. I do not entertain the slightest doubt that there is no ground... | |
 | Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Edward Potton, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 858 pages
...found a verdict for the defendant. . In Michaelmas Term, Merewether, Serjt., obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence ; and he cited Rogers v. Brookes.§ Manning (with whom were Selwyn and Pollen)... | |
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Bliss obtained a rule to enter the verdict pursuant to the leave reserved, and also for a new trial on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. 
