Jarrell v. King

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

Notwithstanding that this was the third verdict for the plaintiffs below, we think the trial judge was well-warranted in granting a new trial on the ground that the verdict was contrary to evidence. There may also have been other grounds upon which his ruling might have been based; but as the assignment of error in the bill of. exceptions is only that the court erred in granting a new trial, we need not go further at present than to rule, as did the presiding judge, that all the grounds of the motion taken together made a new trial proper, leaving the errors, if any,…