Portsmouth Cotton Oil Refining Corp. v. Cumming Oil & Fertilizer Co.

The plaintiff instituted an action against the defendant in the superior court of Forsyth county, which was tried and resulted in a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff made a motion for a new trial, and a day was fixed for its determination. Pending the motion the term of office of his honor Judge Price Edwards, before whom the case was tried, terminated. Judge H. L. Patterson, the judge of the Blue Ridge circuit, was disqualified. Thereupon the parties agreed that the motion for new trial might be passed upon by Hon. George L. Bell, judge of the superior court of the Atlanta circuit. On…