Case Name: PROWELL v. NEUENDORF
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1905-09-19
Citations: 141 Mich. 272
Docket Number: Docket No. 25
Parties: PROWELL v. NEUENDORF.
Judges: Moore, C. J., and Carpenter, Grant, and Ostrander, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 141
Pages: 272–272

Head Matter:
PROWELL v. NEUENDORF.
Judgment Notwithstanding Verdict — Practice.
A verdict for plaintiff cannot be set aside on motion for new-trial, and a verdict directed for defendant and judgment entered thereon without any new trial.
Error to Wayne; Donovan, J.
Submitted June 16, 1905.
(Docket No. 25.)
Decided September 19, 1905.
Ejectment by Ottielge Prowell against Charles Neuendorf and Anna Neuendorf. There was judgment for defendants, notwithstanding a verdict for plaintiff, and plaintiff brings error.
Reversed.
Wesley L. Nutten and M. B. Breitenbaeh, for appellant.
William C. Oottman, for appellees.

Opinion:
Montgomery, J.
The plaintiff brought an action of ejectment to recover a strip of land claimed by her to be a portion of a lot admittedly owned and occupied by her. Defendants claimed that a line had been established between plaintiff's property and theirs by agreement and acquiescence. The circuit judge submitted this question of fact to the jury, who found for the plaintiff. Later, on a motion for a new trial, the circuit judge set aside the verdict for plaintiff, and without any new trial directed a verdict for defendants and entered judgment thereon. This practice was without precedent and unauthorized. There was no verdict upon which to base the judgment. See Central Sav. Bank v. O'Connor, 132 Mich. 581; Plunkett v. Railway Co., 140 Mich. 299.
The judgment will be set aside, and a new trial ordered. Plaintiff will recover costs of this court.
Moore, C. J., and Carpenter, Grant, and Ostrander, JJ., concurred.