Hardin v. Manry

Candler, Justice.

After verdict and judgment and during the term at which they were rendered, the claimants made a motion for a new trial, which was set down for a hearing at Barnesville, Georgia, on January 6, 1954, at chambers and in vacation. On December 29, 1953, Judge Brooke, who had presided at the trial of the case because of the illness of Judge Willingham, wrote counsel for the movants to prepare and mail to him an order resetting the motion for a hearing at Canton, Georgia, on any Saturday in January, 1954, but counsel for the movants did not comply with his direction. On January 6,…