 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 542 pages
...Trinity Term, when a verdict was found for the plaintiffs. Sovill, QC (with whom was Murray), moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence, and also upon affidavits setting forth evidence of user in India long anterior... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 518 pages
...QC, in Easter Term last, moved, pursuant to leave, to enter a verdict for the defendants, or for a new trial on the ground of misdirection and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. After referring to the several progressive improvements in anchors from the... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 624 pages
...did, and accordingly returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 101Z. 9«. Kinydon now moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that...procuration," it is equally clear that he could not be liable, upon the bill, as a shareholder in the supposed company, the plaintiff's own •witness having stated... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 556 pages
...Bovill, QC (with whom were Mills, QC, and AK Stephenson), on a former day in this term, moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. lie submitted, upon the authority of the case of Vaughan v. The Taff Vale Railway Company, 5 Hurlst.... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 540 pages
...was thereupon entered for the defendants. Griffits, in Easter Term last, obtained a rule nisi for a new trial on the ground of misdirection and that the verdict was against evidence. He submitted that the officer was not authorized to receive the money, and that the discharge of the... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 612 pages
...returned a verdict for the defendant, Sir T. Wilde, Serjt, on a former day in this term, moved for a new trial on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. The question of law, that is, the construction of the written contract between the parties, was improperly... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 620 pages
...jury. Mr. 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. We do not think that any misdirection was made out, nor that the verdict ought to be disturbed as against... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 572 pages
...verdict for the plaintiff, damages 3547. O'Malley, in Michaelmas term, 1848, obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. Byles, Serjt., Willeg, and Couch, in Trinity term last, showed cause.— The main objection, to the... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 452 pages
...interference by Sparrow, or of malice, or of want of reasonable and probable cause, and also for a new trial on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. The learned judge put three questions to the jury. In substance as follows:—... | |
 | Great Britain. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 528 pages
...the plaintiff,—the amount of damages being by agreement referred. Montague Smith now moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence.—The defendant •was guilty of no breach of his contract, if he supplied that which was... | |
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Kingdon now moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection. and that the verdict was against evidence. It having been conceded at the trial, that the defendant was not chargeable upon an acceptance " per procuration," it is equally clear that he... 
