Skinner v. Franklin County’s Empirical Analysis
56 F. 783 · 1893
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
November 1993
most recently cited
9 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Cromwell v. County of Sac · Nesbit v. Independent District of Riverside · the "Abbotsford" · Supervisors v. Kennicott · Hathaway v. First Nat Bank of Cambridge
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““The proposition that tlie general finding of the court in this case is open to review is in direct opposition lo the rulings of the court in the cases cited. The plaintiff in error seeks to make tlie question whether the evidence set out in the bill of exceptions justified the finding by the court for the plaintiff of tlie issue of fact raised by tlie pleadings: This is, in defiance of the decision of this court that it cannot; be done, an attempt upon a general finding to bring up tlie whole testimony for review by a bill of exceptions. The theory of the plaintiff in error seems to be that the general finding in this case, like a general verdict, includes questions of both law and fact, and that, by excepting to the general finding, he excepts to such conclusions of law as the general finding implies. But section (540, Rev. St., provides that the finding of the court, whether general or special, shall have the same effect as the verdict of a jury. The general verdict of a jury concludes mixed questions of law and fact, except so far as they may be saved by some exception which Hie party has taken to tlie ruling of the court upon a question of law. * * * But the plaintiff in error has taken no such exception. By excepting to the general finding of the court it is in the same position as if it had submitted its case to the jury, and, without any exceptions taken during the course of the trial, had, upon a return of the general verdict for the plaintiff, embodied in a .bill of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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