New York Supreme Court March 6, 1849 (Rathbone v. Stanton)

By the Court, Gridley, J.

There is at this day no doubt, and there never should have been any, that the verdict of a jury should be set aside where there has been no evidence to support it. The doctrine found in the 10th Wendell’s Rep. 411, 413, 425, has been since reconsidered and materially modified.