Shippen Hardwood Lumber Co. v. Johnson

In the bill of exceptions error is assigned upon the court’s direction of a verdict in favor of the defendant, upon the ground that such ruling was contrary to law and contrary to the evidence and without evidence to support it. These exceptions do not raise the point that under the pleadings and the evidence there were issues of fact which should have been submitted to the jury, and that the verdict was not demanded by the evidence. Another exception assigns error upon the ground that the direction of the verdict was contrary to law. This assignment is insufficient to constitute a valid…