 | 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 - 1862 - 614 páginas
...each other. In Gains t\ Belts, 2 Doug. Mich. 98, it was held that a judgment should not be reversed on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against evidence, unless it appeared that there was a total want of testimony to sustain the finding. While in Herring... | |
 | South Australia. Supreme Court - 1875 - 288 páginas
...verdict having been by my direction given for the defendants; and the other a conditional rule for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against evidence. The action was trover for the recovery of thirty bales of cornsacks. The plaintiffs relied on a contract... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Samuel Townsend Douglass - 1878 - 598 páginas
...1, 2, 8. BY-LAW. See CORPORATION, 7, & CERTIORAM. 1. A judgment will not be reversed on certiorari on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against evidence, unless it appears that there was a total want of testimony to sustain the finding. — Gaines v. BetU,... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.), Rowland M. Stover - 1879 - 728 páginas
...and 11, chap. 629, Laws of 1872; sec, 9, chap. 545, Laws of 1874 ; see. 43, chap. 479, Laws of 1875). The language of the acts of 1874 and 1875, is certainly...an order granting a new trial, on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against evidence, but such, I think, was not the intention of the legislature.... | |
 | 1879 - 552 páginas
...the jury. In Gaines v, Belts, 2 Doug. (Mich.) 98, it was held that a judgment should not be reversed on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against evidence, unless it appeared there was a total want of testimony to sustain the finding. In Berry v. Lowe, 10... | |
 | Charles Patrick Daly - 1880 - 610 páginas
...10 and 11, ch. 629, Laws of 1872 ; sec. 9, ch. 545, Laws of 1874 ; sev. 43, ch. 479, Laws of 1875.) The language of the acts of 1874 and 1875 is certainly...from an order granting a new trial on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against evidence, but such, I think, was not the intention of the Legislature.... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - 1882 - 796 páginas
...improvidently made, if application is made therefor. Id. 6. CRANTING NEW TRIAL. — The granting of a new trial on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against the admissions of the defendant, who was called as a witness, is a decision of the Court that the evidence... | |
 | 1886 - 454 páginas
...Co. v. Wright, 11 App. Cas. 152, was an appeal from a refusal of the Court of Appeal to grant a new trial on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of evidencs. The House of Lords affirmed the courts below, holding that a new trial ought... | |
 | Isaac E. Adams - 1886 - 840 páginas
...sixty-third (the last) volume of our State Reports, there are eighty-one reversals. Of these, ten are on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against evidence. Eight cases tried by the Court, a jury having been waived, were reversed on the ground that the findings... | |
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The language of the acts of 1874 and 1875 is certainly broad enough to embrace an appeal from an order granting a new trial on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against evidence, but such, I think, was not the intention of the Legislature. 
