Central Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Co. v. White
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 106, Jan. T., 1903, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Aug. T., 1899, No. 84, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Central Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company v. William S. White and Henry A. White, Administrators of William White, deceased. Issue to determine the validity of a check.
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Appeal, No. 106, Jan. T., 1903, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Aug. T., 1899, No. 84, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Central Guarantee Trust & Safe Deposit Company v. William S. White and Henry A. White, Administrators of William White, deceased. Issue to determine the validity of a check. From the record it appeared that the check in controversy was drawn by William White on March 2, 1899, on the Lancaster Trust Company, in the sum of $1,500. The check was drawn in favor of a son who lived in Harrisburg and certified by the Trust Co. Shortly after the check was…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Mitchell,
The learned trial judge having given a binding direction as to the verdict, what he said to the jury in explanation, or comment on the case, and his refusal to answer points, became entirely immaterial. Points are statements of the rules or principles of law, especially applicable to the case, and therefore given to the jury as guides in applying the law to the facts. But where the jury has no such duty and the judge himself determines the combined result of the law and the facts as presented, points become immaterial. “ The correctness of the direction to the…
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