...case went to trial before a jury and at the conclusion of the evidence for the plaintiff the court directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant, EH Childers. After this, the trial proceeded as to the defendant, Robert Childers, with the result...

...court decided that there was such a record as was set forth in the defendant's first plea in bar, and directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. Exceptions by plaintiff. Tracy Sf Converse for plaintiff. In order to make the former judgment a bar,...

...similar statutes, cited by defendant's counsel in his brief, it is contended that the court should have directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant for the reasons: 1. That the action is assumpsit. 2. That, whether it is in assinnpsit or is an action...

...eject the plaintiff from the place he unlawfully attempted to occupy and hold, the court should have directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. & The judgment of the court below must be reversed, with costs of both courts. No new trial will be...

...conclusion of the plaintiff's evidence, which tended to prove the facts above recited, the Circuit Court directed the jury to return a verdict In favor of the defendant This proceeding In error is prosecuted to review the Judgment rendered upon the verdict so returned....

...to constitute a cause of action. The court sustained this objection, and, upon motion of defendant, directed the Jury to return a verdict In favor of the defendant, and entered judgment thereon. Previous to the trial a general demurrer had been interposed by defendant...

...tho case, the father had, by his negligent act, precluded himself from the recovery of damages, and directed the Jury to return a verdict In favor of the defendant. The trial judge, in the charge to the Jury, inter alia, said: "The father on this occasion took this boy...

...in the same court, upon the same charge, in January, 1885, Judge Noonan, after lengthy deliberation, directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant, he declaring the act in question to be unconstitutional, and this, too, in the face of a decision of...

...raised on the record. At the conclusion of the testimony the trial court granted an instruction which directed the Jury to return a verdict In favor of the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff had been guilty of coutrlbutory négligence. Was that ruling right?...

...a large amount of other testimony offered and excluded, to which we need not refer. The court then directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant in error, which was done, and judgment rendered thereon. It will be seen that the judgment under which...