California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Holder v. Home Sav. & Loan Ass'n of Los Angeles, 267 Cal.App.2d 91, 72 Cal.Rptr. 704 (Cal. App. 1968):
The order is specific in stating the matters as to which the evidence was insufficient, and in the reasons for which the awards of punitive damages were unwarranted. In granting a new trial after a verdict in favor of a plaintiff, the trial court can hardly detail nonexistence of every variety of evidence that might support an ultimate finding of fact. In granting a new trial after a defense verdict, it is wholly possible to point out the evidence in the record that would have justified plaintiffs' verdict, as in Mercer v. Perez, 68 A.C. 102, 65 Cal.Rptr. 315, 436 P.2d 315.
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