 | Great Britain. Courts - Admiralty - 1864 - 562 pages
...points, it must be taken that the jury have found that there was negligence; and then it is contended that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury, and that if there was, the defts. were protected by the exceptions in the bill of lading. The bill... | |
 | Maxwell Alexander Robertson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 1190 pages
...directed by a stranger, went to the lamp-room instead of the urinal, and fell down some steps, and it was held that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury, Willes, J. saying, " It ought to have been shewn the steps were more than ordinarily dangerous. ...... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1870 - 756 pages
...and leave was reserved to the defendants to move to enter a nonsuit if the Court should be of opinion that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury — the defendants undertaking, in the event of the rule being made absolute, not to ask for costs.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 416 pages
...leave being reserved to the defendants to move to enter a nonsuit or a verdict for them, on the ground that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury. A rule having been obtained accordingly, or for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 704 pages
...verdict was taken by consent for the plaintiff, subject to leave reserved to set it aside on the ground that there was no evidence of negligence, to go to the jury. A rule was accordingly obtained in the Court of Common Pleas, and was after argument discharged. Upon... | |
 | Henry Godefroi, John Shortt - Railroad law - 1869 - 972 pages
...section — nu-amuR of " necessary." 8 £ 9 vicT. c. 20. rail It was held by the Court of Common Pleas, that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury : (Grafter v. Metropolitan Railway Co., 35 LJ (CP) 132.) (») It was held by the Vice- Chancellor of... | |
 | Thomas William Saunders - Liability - 1871 - 338 pages
...luggage was placed on the arrival of trains, and was used for weighing luggage ; upon these facts it was held that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury. In giving judgment, Martin, B., said, " In all cases of this nature the first qviestion to be considered... | |
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 788 pages
...leave being reserved to the defendant to move to enter a nonsuit, if the Court should be of opinion that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury. A rule to show cause having been obtained accordingly, Anstie (H. Matthews, QC, with him), showed cause.... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 410 pages
...but it had stood there some five years without accident to any person passing to or from the train ; held, that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury, the machine being where it might have been seen, and the accident not being shewn to be one which could... | |
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The ruling was in form that there was no evidence of negligence to go to the jury... 
