Schnugg v. New York Elevated Railroad

The defendants, after the trial, submitted proposed requests, which the trial judge declined to pass upon because of prefatory matter therein which called, in certain contingencies, for the changing of the requests as to matter of fact' to requests as to matters of law, and also the reverse, and required each sentence to be passed upon, and for the further reason that the court had already passed upon the material matters in the case at the request of the plaintiff, It appears that the defendants made 58 requests to find facts, and 22 to find conclusions of law, and requested the court, if it…