 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...jury asked TERM, 1871.] Smith v. Childress. by the plaintiff'. Tbc instruction asked to be given is as follows: " If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff, before the commencement of this suit, assigned and delivered the writing obligatory sued upon to William... | |
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 732 pages
...dollars. This was the material part of the evidence. The defendant asked the Court to instruct the jury as follows : " If the jury find, from the evidence, that the plaintiff contracted to perform a certain job of work in making a road for a stipulated price, and that the plaintiff... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 634 pages
...or situation. 5. Error of the presiding Judge in charging the defendants' sixth request, which was as follows : "If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff knew that defendants had bought this land for the purpose of reselling it, and find that after the... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1877 - 766 pages
...defendants to recover the logs in controversy. The learned county judge instructed the jury (among other things) as follows: " If the jury find from the evidence, that the plaintiff authorized Coppersmith to go on the land in question and cut timber on it, then your verdict must be... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 680 pages
...been injured. The evidence having closed, the defendant's counsel asked the Court to instruct the jury as follows : " If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff knew the box-car was the proper place for him, and if he knew his position on the pilot of the engine... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 858 pages
...the pilot. The evidence being closed, the defendant's counsel asked the court to instruct the jury as follows : " If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff knew the box-car was the proper place for him, and if he knew his position on the pilot of the engine... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 886 pages
...the court below erred in its second instruction to the jury trying the cause. This instruction was as follows: " If the jury find from the evidence, that the plaintiff was riding on horseback, upon and along the defendant's road (a turnpike), and within the limits of said... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 582 pages
...principle declared in that decision. On behalf of the appellant the court was asked to instruct the jury as follows: "If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff was driving a band of eleven horses loose upon the highway, in known proximity to the railroad of the defendant,... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883 - 796 pages
...bill of exceptions (but which it is not uecessary to state), the court charged the jury, " among other things," as follows : '* If the jury find, from the...actuated by a mere childish desire to ride upon the care, without being sensible of the danger to which he was exposed, then he would not be chargeable... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 1002 pages
...prejudiced by it. '^. The court refused to give the jury an instruction proposed on behalf of the defendant, as follows: "If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff stopped on the lower step of the outside rear platform of the car longer than was necessary for him... | |
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The evidence being closed, the defendant's counsel asked the court to instruct the jury as follows: " If the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff knew... 
