Home Ins. v. Tydal Co.

SIBLEY, Grcuit Judge.

The motion for rehearing urgently insists that we are in error in saying: “In the federal system appellate courts do not normally review the verdict of the jury, but only the acts of the judge. The trial judge alone has the right and duty to set the verdict aside if dissatisfied with it”, and that it is our duty to scrutinize more closely the evidence and reconsider our suggestions as to how the jury might reasonably have reached the amount in the verdict they made. Because counsel so frequently call on us to review the sufficiency of the evidence to support a verdict in…