It is the peculiar province of the jury to pass upon questions of fact, and the issues of fact, as well as of law submitted to the court for determination. A jury not having been waived, it was error for the court to undertake to decide upon the weight of the evidence, and withdraw from the consideration of the jury, a phase of the controversy upon which plaintiff was entitled to have them pass. Morey v. Harvey, 18 Colo. 40, 31 P. 719; Blackwell v. Greenbaum, 50 I11. App. 143; Ryan v. Page, 123 Iowa, 246, 98 N. W. 768; Tracey Ld. Co. v. Polk Ld. & Ln. Co., 131 Iowa, 40, 107 N. W. 1029; West v. Prewitt, 19 Ky. L. R. 1480, 43 S. W. 467; Wright v. Young, 176 Mass. 100, 57 N. E. 212; Rogers v. Evan. Bap. Ben., etc., So., 168 Mass. 592, 47 N. E. 434; West v. Demme, 128 Mich. 11, 87 N. W. 95; Marx v. Otto, 117 Mich. 510, 76 N. W. 7; Crevier v. Stephen, 40 Minn. 288, 41 N. W. 1039; Finch v. Guardian Tr. Co., 92 Mo. App. 263; Langstreth v. Korb, 64 N. J. L. 112, 44 A. 934; Grade v. Stevens, 171 N. Y. 658, 63 N. E. 1117; Condict v. Cowdrey, 123 N. Y. 463, 25 N. E. 946; Reddin v.

Dam, 64 N. Y. S. 611, 51 App. Div. 636; Thornal v. Pitts, 36 N. Y. Super. Ct. 379; Meeslahn v. Englehard, 20 N. Y. S. 900, 1 Misc. 412; Meyer v. Strauss, 58 N. Y. S. 904, 42 App. Div. 613; Ringold v. Rhode, 132 Pa. St. 189, 18 A. 1118; Clendenin v. Pancoast, 75 Pa. St. 213; McCaffery v. Page, 20 Pa. Super. Ct. 400; Boeder v. Butler, 19 Pa. Super. Ct. 604; Blair v. Slosson, 27 Tex. Civ. App. 403, 66 S. W. 112; Center v. Conglomerate Min. Co., 23 Utah, 165, 64 P. 362; Dunsmier v. Lowenburg, 31 Canada Supreme Ct. 334; Lamson v. Main, 43 N. Y. Super. Ct. 24.