Plummer v. Granite Mountain Min. Co.

KNOWLES, District Judge.

The issue presented in tills cause was tried at the last term of this court by a jury which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for the sum of |30,000. Defendant now comes into court, and petitions the court for a new trial of the cause. The principal ground assigned in support of the petition, and the one chiefly presented in the brief of defendant, is that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. It is admitted that there was a material conflict in the evidence upon the most material point in the case, and this cannot be disputed.…