Eason v. Mayor of Americus

This case was tried November 27, 1897, during a regular term of Sumter superior court. A motion for a new trial was ■ duly filed, and an order passed setting the same for a hearing on the first day of January, 1898, and allowing the movant until December 27, 1897, in vacation, to file a brief of the evidence. No brief was filed within the time thus limited. On January 1, 1898, the court passed an order continuing the hearing of the motion until February 5, 1898, and allowing the movant until January 17 to file a brief of the evidence. In this order, however, the-right of the respondent to…