This section is from the book "American Law Of Real Estate Agency", by William Slee Walker. Also available from Amazon: American law of real estate agency.
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.
 
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