Murphy v. Renner
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendants from an order of the district court for Renville county, Powers, J., granting a motion for a new trial and denying a motion for judgment notwithstanding the instructed verdict.
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
This action was brought in the district court of the county of Renville to recover from the defendants the possession of eighty acres of land. The trial court directed a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendants made a motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or for a new trial. The court made its order denying the motion for judgment, and granting the motion for a new trial. The defendants appealed from the order. If the evidence is practically conclusive that the plaintiff has no interest whatever in the land then the order denying defendants’ motion for judgment was erroneous,…
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