Bailey v. Sisson

This is an appeal from an order of the district court of Tulsa county sustaining plaintiff’s motion for new trial in a personal injury action. The parties are here referred to as they appeared at the trial.

While the formal order sustaining said motion assigns no particular reason therefor, the court in ruling upon the motion ordered as follows:

“Let the record show in this case that the court sustains the motion for a new trial on the sole and only ground that he does not agree with the verdict of the jury.”

Defendant says that the foregoing ruling constituted an abuse of discretion.

A motion…