 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 812 pages
...Mining Company is liable therefor, and not the defendant. At the close of the case, the trial court directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff had sued the wrong party. It appeared without contradiction that the mine in which plaintiff was working... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 798 pages
...been brought by defendant. 1906] DBAGGO v. WEST BAY CITY SUGAR Co. 197 Counsel for the defendant say that the court should have directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground that, if the promise was made as alleged, it was a promise to pay the debt of another, and void... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 824 pages
...approaching the crossing. At the close of the testimony upon the part of the plaintiff, the circuit judge directed a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the plaintiff was in fault in not taking the means that an ordinarily prudent man would have taken to ascertain whether... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 804 pages
...At the close of the plaintiff's testimony the trial court, upon the motion of defendant's counsel, directed a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the plaintiff was guilty of contributory negligence, and a judgment for defendant was entered. At the time of 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 796 pages
...brush, and that Bonneyville was not within the line of his employment in causing it to be done, and, therefore, that the court should have directed a verdict for the defendant. It must be admitted that there is no evidence that the defendant instructed his men to set fire, or... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 718 pages
...to ran back. This was the substance of the testimony which made for the plaintiff. The circuit judge directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff contributed by his own carelessness to the injury complained of. We think this direction was error.... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 798 pages
...anti-trust law, and void as well at the common law, as a combination in restraint of trade. They insist, therefore, that the court should have directed a verdict for the defendant. The controversy is between two corporations. The commodity which was the subject of the contract is... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1881 - 730 pages
...intestate, by falling from the defendant's car. Trial in the Superior Court, before Wilkineon, J., vfho directed a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the plaintiff had not offered any evidence sufficient to warrant the jury in rinding that her intestate was in the exercise... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1881 - 968 pages
...family. No contract between the two was proved, except such as may arise by implication. The court directed a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the plaintiff could not maintain this action. "It is not necessary to prove an actual contract for service, but the... | |
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We are of the opinion, therefore, that the court should have directed a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff had not sustained the onus of proving that Scott's death was caused alone by external violent and accidental means. 
