Riley v. Stone
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, tried before Cox, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1917, of CHATHAM. This action was brought to recover damages for slander, assault, and false arrest, or imprisonment, and was here at a former term of this Court (169 N. C., 421), but was not finally decided.
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Civil ACTION, tried before Cox, J., and a jury, at March Term, 1917, of CHATHAM. This action was brought to recover damages for slander, assault, and false arrest, or imprisonment, and was here at a former term of this Court (169 N. C., 421), but was not finally decided. It comes before us now to be decided as to its merits, and the defendant has reserved but one exception, by his motion to nonsuit, which requires us to decide only whether there is any evidence of the slander or false imprisonment, the jury having returned the following verdict: 1. Did John Stone wrongfully imprison the…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating the case: Those facts, which are apparently undisputed in this case, do not impress us very favorably for the plaintiff, but we must remember that she is entitled to have a jury pass upon them, and we are bound by the verdict, if no error in law has been committed at the trial. The verdicts of jurors may not always be right, but no better system has ever been devised for the purpose of deciding the facts than that which we have «adopted for so many years. If the jury err, the remedy is with the trial judge, who can set aside the verdict if against the weight of the…
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