Case Name: Matt Clark vs. C. N. Nelson Lumber Company
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1885-11-07
Citations: 34 Minn. 249
Docket Number: 
Parties: Matt Clark vs. C. N. Nelson Lumber Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 34
Pages: 249–249

Head Matter:
Matt Clark vs. C. N. Nelson Lumber Company.
November 7, 1885.
3STew Trial — Verdict against Evidence — Discretion of Court. — Rule that this court will not reverse an order setting aside a verdict as against the evidence, unless the preponderance of the evidence was manifestly and palpably in favor of the verdict, followed.
Appeal by defendant from an order of tbe district court for Washington county, McCluer, J., presiding, setting aside a verdict for defendant and granting a new trial.
Fayette- Marsh, for appellant.
Searles, Ewing & Gail, for respondent.

Opinion:
Gilfillan, C. J.
In Hicks v. Stone, 13 Minn. 398, (434,) and Rheiner v. Stillwater Street Ry. Co., 29 Minn. 147, and other cases following those, the rule was recognized that an order of the trial court setting aside a verdict as against the evidence will not be reversed merely because there was evidence reasonably tending to support the verdict, nor unless the preponderance of evidence was manifestly and palpably in favor of the verdict. This case comes within that rule; for instead of the preponderance of the evidence being in favor of the verdict, it was clearly against it.
Order affirmed.