Holderfield v. Deen

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of the circuit court of Jefferson County granting defendants’ motion for a new trial in a personal injury action. In granting the motion the trial court did not specify which ground or grounds of the motion it thought justified its ruling. Among the 38 grounds are several taking the point that the verdict is not sustained by the great preponderance of the evidence.

The case went to the jury on count C, the essential averments of which charge defendants, as owners of a house, with negligence in voluntarily undertaking to repair…