...notes sued on, with interest, against the defendant as executrix and against her personally. The court instructed the jury to find a verdict in favor of the defendant personally, and against her as executrix. The record states that the defendant, as executrix, "objected...

...issue, and pleaded specially the three, five, and ten years' statutes of limitation. On the trial the judge instructed the jury to find a verdict in favor of the defendants, which action of the court is assigned as error. The proof established or tended to show...

...of the lots of land." At the trial of the cause before McDoxALD, J., at Guysboro', May 29th, 1883, the learned judge instructed the jury to find a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, if they were satisfied that, at the time of the execution of that document, a road existed...

...to plaintiff's assignor. At the end of the plaintiff's case, the court, of its own motion, directed a verdict in favor of the defendant, on the ground that the contract rests on an immoral consideration and cannot be enforced. The argument by which the judgment...

...information. At the close of the people's case the defendant moved the court to advise the jury to bring in a verdict in favor of the defendant on the ground that the evidence was insufficient to convict the defendant. The court then charged the jury as follows: "Ladies...

...as aforesaid was not in writing. At the close of the evidence the court directed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the defendant on the ground that the contract of exchange between the parties had been reduced to writing; that it was presumed to contain...

...guilty of negligence: Held, that as the facts were not in dispute, the trial judge should have directed a verdict in favor of the defendant, on the ground that the plaintiff had been guilty of negligence in not giving notice to the bank, and judgment was entered...