Case ID: nh_60/html/0195-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Foster, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Brown, Adm'r, v. The Mass. M. L. Ins. Co.
    When, on a reserved case, a verdict for the plaintiff has been set aside because a motion for a nonsuit made at the trial should have been granted, for want of evidence which the plaintiff may be able to produce, the plaintiff is ordinarily entitled to a new trial.
    Assumpsit, reported in 59 N. H. 298.
    
      Copeland Edgerly, for tbe plaintiff.
    Wheeler, for the defendants.
   Foster, J.

The plaintiff had a verdict, which was set aside because a motion made at the trial should have been granted. There was a want of certain evidence on the part of the plaintiff, but this evidence he may be able to produce at another trial. He claims a new trial, and the defendants claim a judgment. There might be a reason for requiring a party to produce all his evidence at the first trial, and there might be a reason for giving him another opportunity. In this case, if the motion for a nonsuit had been sustained at the trial, a motion by the plaintiff for leave to supply the defect in his evidence might have been granted; and there does not appear to be sufficient cause for giving the defendant judgment.

Case discharged.

Allen and Blodgett, JJ., concurred: the others did not sit.