Arnold v. Arnold

Motion on behalf of defendant and corespondent Margaret Crenshaw West to set aside the verdict of the jury and for a new trial. There were no exceptions to the charge of the court, and no errors of law are pointed out. The grounds of the motion are that there was a mistrial through a defective verdict, which is also said to be bad as against the weight of evidence; the defect stated is incompleteness, because, whereas the jury was required to pass on the guilt or. innocence of both plaintiff and defendant, it left the conduct of the plaintiff undecided. The two grounds are disputed by the…