Hill v. Greenwood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two motions for a new trial of two actions of tort tried together, on the ground of alleged misconduct of one of the jurors and one of the defendants during the trial. The motions were heard together in the Superior Court, before Aldrich, J., who overruled them ; and the plaintiffs alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
At the hearing of the motion for a new trial in each of these cases, no exception was taken to the admission or exclusion of any evidence, nó request was made for a ruling as matter of law, and the presiding judge made no such ruling. It was not until the decision of the motions was announced that the plaintiff contended that the verdicts ought not to stand on the evidence introduced at the hearing. Even then the judge made no ruling as matter of law, but in the exercise of his discretion refused to set aside the verdicts.
While questions of law, which arise for the first time at the hearing…
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