Brunswick v. Strilka

This case presents the question whether a jury shall be sustained in rendering a verdict for the plaintiff on the ground that he needs it, and the defendants can stand it. If there were no other ground for reversing the judgment, it would be reversed because a new trial was not granted for the reason assigned in the motion therefor that the verdict was contrary to the evidence. But, by the modifications by the court of several of the instructions asked by the appellants, the jury were required, as a condition precedent to a verdict for the appellants, to believe from the evidence…