Sheldon v. George
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Arthur P. Sheldon, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 17th day of Septem ber, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Jefferson Trial Term.
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Appeal by the plaintiff, Arthur P. Sheldon, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 17th day of Septem ber, 1908, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Jefferson Trial Term. This action was brought to recover the amount of a reward offered by defendant in the following advertisement or notice published by his direction in the Watertown Daily Times, a newspaper published in the city of Watertown, where both parties to this action then and at the time of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Robson, J.:
At the close of all the evidence defendant renewed his motion for ' a nonsuit, made at the close of plaintiff’s evidence, and plaintiff moved for direction of verdict for the amount claimed in the complaint. The court directed a verdict for defendant and the verdict was duly rendered and taken, pursuant to: the direction. Defendant’s motion for a nonsifit, being in fact a motion to- dismiss the complaint, is equivalent- to a, request to direct a verdict in favor of defendant. (Dillon v. Cockcroft, 90 N. Y. 649, 650.) The'effect of these motions,, as has been held,, “ amounted 'to-a…
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- Pierson v. . MorchNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
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