Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern Railway Co. v. Strickland

The defendants in error, as the minor children of a-deceased employee of the plaintiff in error, obtained a verdict based upon'a claim of his negligent homicide. A motion for anew trial was made by the defendant company, upon the general grounds, and upon the further ground that the court below erred in certain rulings as to the admissibility of evidence, and in refusing to grant a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence which it is claimed shows that the principal witness for the plaintiff below was guilty of perjury in testifying that he was present at the time of the homicide…