Forsyth v. Cothran
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in the Superior Court. New trial. Before Judge Underwood. Floyd Superior Court. January Term, 1878. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was a claim case, on the trial of which the jury found the property subject to the fi.fa. levied thereon. A motion was made for a new trial on the grounds therein stated, which was granted by the court, and the plaintiff excepted.
It appears from the record and bill of exceptions that the court granted a new trial, on the ground of the improper language and statements made by the plaintiff’s counsel in his concluding argument to the jury, the attention of the court having been called to the same at the time *279by the claimant’s counsel. When counsel for either party, in…
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