Washburn v. Allen
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions from superior court. The opinion states the case. cited: Howe’s Practice, 268 ; Chitty, Pr. 910; 1 Arch. Pr. Com. PL 173-188 ; 2 Arch. Pr. Com. Pl. 251; 5 B. & Cr. 178; 1 B. & Cr. 110: 3 Bing. 290; 2 H. Bl. 374; 2 Esp. 482, (note) ; 7 D. & E. 372; Watterman, Set-off, 749; Gale v. Hoysradt, 7 Hill, 179; Wooster y. Burr, 2 Wend. 295; Dana v. Gill, 20 Am. Dec. 255; Merchants’ Bank v. Bawls, 50 Am.
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On exceptions from superior court. The opinion states the case. cited: Howe’s Practice, 268 ; Chitty, Pr. 910; 1 Arch. Pr. Com. PL 173-188 ; 2 Arch. Pr. Com. Pl. 251; 5 B. & Cr. 178; 1 B. & Cr. 110: 3 Bing. 290; 2 H. Bl. 374; 2 Esp. 482, (note) ; 7 D. & E. 372; Watterman, Set-off, 749; Gale v. Hoysradt, 7 Hill, 179; Wooster y. Burr, 2 Wend. 295; Dana v. Gill, 20 Am. Dec. 255; Merchants’ Bank v. Bawls, 50 Am. Dec.-394; Haskell v. Whitney, 12 Mass. .47 ; Locke v. Wood, 16 Mass. 317 ; Shaw v. Boland, 15 Gray, 571; Lowell v. Merrimack M’f’g Co. 11 Gray, 382; Truro v. Atkins, 122 Mass. 418. The…
1Opinion of the CourtPoster, J.
This action was tried before the presiding justice, without the intervention of a jury. The parties upon both sides *346had introduced their evidence, and at this stage of the trial, the plaintiff claimed to become nonsuit, to which the defendant objected; thereupon the court ruled, as a matter of law, that the plaintiff could not become nonsuit against the defendants’ objection.
Before proceeding to consider the authorities that bear upon this question, it may be remarked that nonsuits may be classed under two divisions. (1.) Involuntary; as when ordered by the court against the plaintiff’s…
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