Cohen v. Macks

This was a suit for attorney’s fees, originating in the municipal court of Atlanta. The jury found for the plaintiff, and the defendant appealed to the appellate division of the municipal court from the order overruling his motion for a new trial. The motion for a new trial does not appear in the record, but there does appear a statement of “assignments of error,” in which it is recited that the “appellant herein assigns error upon the action of the trial court in refusing him a new trial, upon each and every ground urged in the motion for a new trial, and which grounds were as follows.”…