 | 1886 - 1942 pages
...the government, and thereupon defendant declined to bring forward any evidence, closed his case, and moved the court to instruct the jury to find for the defendant, on the ground that there was no competent proof that the prosecuting witness was a pensioner, or that... | |
 | 1884 - 938 pages
...was in substance the evidence for the plaintiff, and after its introduction counsel for the defendant moved the court to instruct the jury to find for the defendant. The court thereupon directed the jury to find a verdict for the defendant, which was done. To this... | |
 | 1884 - 1006 pages
...motion was overruled and an exception taken. The appellant then, on substantially the same grounds, moved the court to instruct the jury to find for the defendant. This motion was overruled and an exception taken. The court thereupon instructed the jury to find for... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1897 - 798 pages
...after the evidence for both sides had been introduced and each side had rested the case, the defendant moved the court " to instruct the jury to find for the defendant upon the ground that the negligence, if any, through which the plaintiff was injured was the negligence... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1889 - 704 pages
...of said standing cars. On the close of the plaintiff's evidence, counsel for the defendant company moved the court to instruct the jury to find for the defendant on the ground of the absence of proof of due care on the part of plaintiff, and the absence of proof... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - 1895 - 1082 pages
...declaration were $1,000. The judgment recovered was for $500. At the conclusion of the evidence the defendant moved the court to instruct the jury to find for the defendant, and suggested reasons therefor. The court refused, and an exception was taken and saved. Exceptions... | |
 | 1897 - 830 pages
...would never have occurred. At the conclusion of the whole of the evidence, the plaintiffs in error moved the court to instruct the jury to find for the defendant. This was refused, and this action of the court is now assigned as error. The plaintiffs in error were... | |
 | New Mexico. Supreme Court, John Abbott, Paul A. F. Walter - 1896 - 742 pages
...declaration were $1,000. The judgment recovered was for $500. At the conclusion of the evidence the defendant moved the court to instruct the jury to find for the defendant, and suggested reasons therefor. The court refused, and an exception was taken and saved. Exceptions... | |
 | J. C. Wells, Edward Warren Hines, Frank L. Wells, Horace C. Brannin, William Cromwell, William Jefferson Chinn, Walter G. Chapman, William Pope Duvall Bush, Finlay Ferguson Bush, R. G. Higdon, Thomas Robert.. McBeath - 1897 - 1286 pages
...the succeeding terni a trial WHS had, and, at the conclusion of plaintiff's testimony, the defendant moved the court to instruct the Jury to find for the defendant, which motion was sustained by the court, and the jury under a peremptory instruction found for the... | |
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... the defendant moved the court " to instruct the jury to find for the defendant upon the ground that the negligence, if any, through which the plaintiff was injured was the negligence of the fellow-servants of the plaintiff, for which the defendant... 
