Griggs v. Griggs

The jury rendered a no cause verdict in the case of each of the five plaintiffs. Prom an order denying new trial, plaintiffs have appealed. In a written opinion giving his reasons for denying a new trial, the learned circuit judge conceded that one of the special .questions propounded by him to the jury was erroneous in that it contained a “mixed law and fact proposition.” Plaintiffs had argued this as one of several grounds for new trial. Despite' the erroneous instruction, the circuit judge held that plaintiffs were not entitled to a new trial because-under the Ontario law, 1 plaintiff Owen…