Sullwold v. Hoger

LUNDBERG, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order granting a new trial. The original action was one arising out of an automobile accident. At the trial thereof the jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and on this a judgment of dismissal with costs was entered. The following day the plaintiff made his motion for a new trial on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of'the evidence, but giving no particulars and no specifications, and on the further grounds that the jury’s verdict had been improperly arrived at, was a compromise and the result of the jury’s…