Knickerbocker v. Hall
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Ormsby County, Hon. S. H. Wri&ht, presiding. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court. The verdict in this case fails to comply with the statute, in that the jury finding for the plaintiff in an action for the recovery of money, fails to find the amount of that recovery. ("Laws of 1861, 343, Sec. 176.) Under this statute it is made the duty of the jury to “ find the amount of the recovery.”
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Appeal from the District Court of the Second Judicial District, Ormsby County, Hon. S. H. Wri&ht, presiding. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the Court. The verdict in this case fails to comply with the statute, in that the jury finding for the plaintiff in an action for the recovery of money, fails to find the amount of that recovery. ("Laws of 1861, 343, Sec. 176.) Under this statute it is made the duty of the jury to “ find the amount of the recovery.” The Court is not allowed to do it. It is no compliance with this requirement for the jury to furnish the data on which…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Lewis, J., Beatty, C. J.,
concurring.
This action was brought to recover the value of certain personal property alleged in the complaint to have been “ wrongfully and unlawfully converted ” by defendant to his own use and benefit. After this allegation of a tortious conversion, follows the averment that the defendant “ did then and thereby become indebted to the said plaintiff for the price and value of said property, to wit: in the sum of eight thousand three hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents, (the alleged value of the chattel property) which said sum the said A.…
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