 ... the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence and should have been set aside by the trial judge on that ground upon the motion made by proponent.  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 287by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Richard W. Cooper, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner - 1922Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 368 pages
...measures were resorted to for the purpose of prejudicing the jury against the defendants. 4. Because the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence, and against the charge of the Court. 5. Because the plaintiff fraudulently and corruptly joined with the... | |
 | 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 - 1900 - 808 pages
..."One of the principal reasons alleged on the part of the defendants for a new trial in this case is that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence. In the opinion of the court, that was true." It is urged here with great persistence and apparent feeling... | |
 | 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 - 1913 - 804 pages
...alleged: (a) Because the verdict of the jury was contrary to the evidence in the case, (b) Because the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence in the case, (c) Because the verdict was contrary to the law. The trial judge was of the opinion that... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1913 - 712 pages
...testimony; second, that instructions offered on behalf of appellants were improperly refused; and third, that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence. In support of the first contention made, appellants assert that under a stipulation which had been... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1867 - 636 pages
...upon what principle that court could have granted a new trial. It could not have done so on the ground that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence as to the carelessuess or negligence of the decedent. There was no material conflict in the evidence... | |
 | Ebenezer Haskell - 1869 - 162 pages
...the defendant, and to withdraw the jury's consideration from the true issue in the case. 5. Because the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence. COUET OF COMMON PLEAS, JUDGE BEEWSTER. After disposing of the usual business relating to the Orphans'... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Courts, John Wayne Ashmead - 1871 - 572 pages
...final result of the trials proves him to have been justly and legally entitled to ; and, secondly, that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence, and inconsistent with the principles on which his associates have been acquitted. The facts connected with... | |
 | John Alexander Clark - 1872 - 596 pages
...witnesses on the part of the Commonwealth in attempting to influence one of the jurors. It is not pretended that the verdict of the jury was against the weight of the evidence or the charge of the Court, certainly not by the counsel for Matthew H. M'Ewen. •"•n looking to... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1874 - 672 pages
...settlement was demanded by her. Without further stating the evidence, all of which we have carefully read, we are of the opinion that the verdict of the jury was not sustained by the evidence. We think the case comes clearly within the principle of law to which... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1904 - 598 pages
...importance, and furnish no grounds for a reversal of the judgment. Upon a careful review of the evidence, we are of the opinion that the verdict of the jury was correct. It is therefore ordered that the judgment be affirmed, with costs. BAETCH, J., concurs. EOLAPP,... | |
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