Power v. City of Augusta
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky
At Raw. Action by Mary C. Power against the City of Augusta. On motion for new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
COCHRAN, District Judge.
This cause is before me on motion for new trial. Three grounds are relied on:(1) Error in not sustaining motion to instruct the jury peremptorily to find for the defendant. I still think, as I held at the trial, that this was a case for the jury. I do not have a transcript of the evidence before me, and hence cannot undertake to demonstrate this as I might attempt to do did I so have it. I considered the matter carefully at the trial when all the evidence was fresh in my mind, and, as I recall it now, I would not have been warranted in not submitting the case to the…
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