Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Folds
Supreme Court of Georgia
Nonsuit. Practice. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. March term, 1890. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandeord, Justice.
The court in this case awarded a nonsuit. The defendant in error (who was the plaintiff in the court below) moved that the court set aside the judgment ot nonsuit and reinstate the case, which - the court did, whereupon the defendant excepted and alleges this was error.
Where a motion- is made to reinstate a case after a nonsuit has been awarded, it is in the nature of a motion for a reconsideration, and addresses itself to the sound legal discretion of the court. This court would be very-loath to interfere with the judgment of the court below reinstating the case. In other…
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