Courtney v. Central Trust Co.

In this case a majority of the Court are of the opinion that the demands of justice require the judgment to be reversed for a new trial.

The record shows that on March 20, 1931, Mr. J. Ben Fuqua represented to the Court by his motion in writing that he had been, and then was, attorney for the defendant, J. C. Courtney; that his wife had been seriously ill for several weeks; that on said day the doctors attending his wife had arranged a conference to decide whether Mrs. Fuqua was on that day strong enough to go through a serious surgical operation, and that by reason of his wife’s illness it…