Bell v. Jacobs

After verdict for defendant, plaintiff moved for judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The court took the motion under advisement and three months later denied it. Pending decision of the motion, plaintiff took no steps for a motion for a new trial, but within a week thereafter procured an order requiring defendant to show cause why time for giving notice of intention to *2move for a new trial and to 'bring spch motion to- a hearing should not be extended “and to fix another time within which said acts and all other matters relating thereto may be done and performed; for a period of ninety days…