Case Name: Lessee of Casper Stower against John Lightner
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1796-03
Citations: 2 Yeates 40
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lessee of Casper Stower against John Lightner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Yeates)
Volume: 2
Pages: 40–40

Head Matter:
Lessee of Casper Stower against John Lightner.
On a motion for a new trial, the party must be confined to'the grounds stated in his written notice.
Ejectment for lands in Dauphin county, tried before Yeates and Smith, Justices, at Harrisburgh, October assizes in 1795, and a verdict found for the plaintiff.
The defendant obtained a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be had, and had given written notice of the grounds on which his motion was founded. His counsel now wished to take up a new point not inserted therein.
Mr. Ingersoll, jpro quer. Mr. Tilghman, gyro def.

Opinion:
Per curiam.
The party must be confined to his own statement of the point's whereof he means to avail himself. The reason of filing exceptions to a report of referees applies strongly hereto. It prevents surprise, and the adversary comes prepared to repel those objections alone, unless others arise on the face of the award itself. Here the verdict is not peremptory.
Rule discharged and judgment pro quer.