Coble v. . Coble

ByNüm, J.

The argument and exhaustive brief of Mr. Ruffin have convinced us that the law and merits of the case are probably with the plaintiffs, and it is with reluctance that we are compelled to withhold an affirmation of the judgment rendered below, and to award a venire de novo. ■ But in the conduct of the trial before the jury, there has been such a gross abuse of the privileges of an attorney to the manifest prejudice of the defendant, that we cau not refuse him a new trial without a clear departure from a well considered line of decisions of this Court.

We extract from the case so much…