Eley v. Reese

In an action of complaint for land, the case by consent being tried by the judge without a jury, a judgment was rendered for the defendants. The exception is to a judgment overruling the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.

1. A ground of a motion for a new trial complaining of the admission of evidence and refusal to rule out evidence should show affirmatively the substance of the evidence and what ground of objection was urged to the admissibility of the evidence, and that such ground of objection was stated to the judge at the time of the ruling to which the exception relates. Applying the…