Court Opinion

ID: 7381471
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 00:07:05.415039+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:21:23.571952
License: Public Domain

Judge Buckner
delivered the opinion of the Court. ,
This was a case tried in the circuit court, upon a traverse taken in a writ of forcible entry and detainer, instituted by Roberts against Hanks.
After Roberts had closed the examination of his witnesses, Hanks moved the court to instruct the jury as incase of a non-suit: but the court overruled the motion; to which an exception was taken. An instruction was then moved lor by Hanks, which was also refused in the shape it was asked for, but given with some modiiieation. After this, Roberts introduced and examined another witness, whose testimony was not material to the issue. The proof introduced did not warrant the w rdict which was returned in favor of Roberts, and on which the court gave judgment in his favor. The motion i'or the non-suit ought, therefore, to have been sustained.
The judgment of the court below must he reversed with costs, and the cause remanded tor further proceedings to be had, not inconsistent with this opinion-,