Case ID: dc_1/html/0060-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Negro Patty v. Edward Edelin.
    The plaintiff is not obliged to join in demurrer to the evidence unless the demurrer expressly admits every fact which the jury might reasonably infer from the testimony. But if demurrer be joined, the court will infer what the jury might infer.
    
      Mr. Swann, for the defendant,
    offered a demurrer to the evidence, stating the testimony only as delivered by the witnesses for the plaintiff.
    
      Mr. Jones, for the plaintiff,
    objected to join in demurrer, because it did not state the facts which might be inferred from the testimony. Cocksedge v. Fanshaio, Doug. 131; Hoyle v. Young, 1 Wash. 151; Buller, N. P. 313, and Thweat v. Finch, 1 Wash. 220.
   The Court

was of opinion that the plaintiff was not obliged to join in demurrer, unless the defendant would admit those facts which the jury might reasonably infer from the testimony. But that if such a demurrer, stating the testimony of facts, and not the facts themselves, be joined, then the Court are bound to infer, against the party demurring, every fact which a jury might reasonably have inferred from the testimony so stated.

The Court refused to compel the plaintiff to join in demurrer, unless the defendant would admit that he hired the plaintiff to Henry Lyles ; a fact which they thought the jury might reasonably infer from the testimony.