 | 1907 - 1350 str.
...preponderance of the evidence, whicii was clearly In favor of the plaintiff. Fourth. Because the said verdict was the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury against the plaintiff, or of partiality in favor of the defendant. Fifth. Because the verdict of the... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - 1910 - 866 str.
...Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court.— Hon. AD Burnes, Judge. AFFIRMED. Frost & Frost for appellant. (1) The verdict was the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury. The defendant was a negro and had been convicted of petit larceny when he was ten years of age. The... | |
 | Missouri. Supreme Court - 1913 - 896 str.
...417. (b) Under all the facts and circumstances the verdict is against the evidence and must have been the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury. State v. Speyer, 207 Mo, 540; 194 Mo. 459, 182 Mo. 77. Elliott W. Major, Attorney-General, and Alex.... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1897 - 714 str.
...excessive that seven-tenths of it will be remitted to prevent a new trial, can not but be regarded as the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury, and it is difficult to see how the vice in such a verdict can be cured bv a remittitur, for the passion... | |
 | 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 - 1897 - 782 str.
...Joshua (1. Adams as special judge. One of the assignments of error urged by counsel for the appellant is that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for a continuance. The motion specified two causes; the absence of witnesses who were alleged to reside In Conrad v. The... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Arthur Remington, Solon Dickerson Williams - 1904 - 818 str.
...think justly, that the verdict is so grossly disproportionate to the injury proven as to show that it was the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury, and not the result of a consideration of the evidence. The evidence going to show actual damages was meager... | |
 | Missouri. Courts of Appeals - 1904 - 820 str.
...evidence is to carefully guard against verdicts based on insufficient testimony and those that are the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury. State v. Woodward, 171 Mo. 593; Bailey v. Gunning, 155 Mo. 682. (5) The court committed no error in... | |
 | 1908 - 856 str.
...embraced in those given by the court. It is earnestly insisted that the verdict is palpably excessive and the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury. In a case like that before us. where a young and healthy man Las been made a complete wreck, so that... | |
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... was the result of passion and prejudice on the part of the jury, and that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for a continuance. 
