City of East Point v. Christian

Mrs. W. H. Christian sued the City of East Point for injuries alleged to have been sustained as the result of stepping in an insecurely covered water-meter on a sidewalk of the city. She obtained a verdict and judgment for $5,000, and the city brought the case to this court, assigning error upon the overruling of its motion for a new trial. The motion alleges that the trial judge, in passing upon the motion for a new trial, “ordered that a new trial be and the same is hereby granted unless the plaintiff will write off $1500 within ten days; and in that event and therefore a new trial is and…