Giermann v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.

This case comes here on a bill of exceptions, from which it appears that when the plaintiff rested, the court denied a motion by defendant to dismiss the action on the ground that plaintiff’s evidence did not show a cause of action; and when defendant rested, and the evidence was all in, directed, on defendant’s motion, a verdict in favor of the defendant. No evidence is set out in the bill of exceptions, so that we cannot from a review of it say whether the court was right or wrong in either ruling. It must be presumed to have been right in both, provided that in a case where the plaintiff’s…