Tompkins v. Eason
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Tampa. The plaintiff in error instituted his suit by attachment against the defendant in error in Hillsborough Circuit Court, at the fall term 1856, a trial was had, and the jury having returned a verdict for the defendant, a judgment was thereujion entered by the Court. At the same term a motion was made by the plaintiff for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the evidence.
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This case was decided at Tampa. The plaintiff in error instituted his suit by attachment against the defendant in error in Hillsborough Circuit Court, at the fall term 1856, a trial was had, and the jury having returned a verdict for the defendant, a judgment was thereujion entered by the Court. At the same term a motion was made by the plaintiff for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the evidence. The court below overruled the motion, and the plaintiff by his counsel excepted. No bill of exceptions is incorporated into the record. Several sets of…
1Opinion of the CourtDuPONT, J.
This suit was commenced by the plaintiff in error against the defendant by process of attachment, and judgment was given therein for the defendant upon a verdict of the jury at the Pall Term 1856, of the Circuit Court of Hillsborough county. Prom that judgment an appeal has been taken to this Court, and the only specific error assigned for a *15reversal is, that the Circuit Court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.
In looting into the record, we find that the plaintiff’s counsel did mate a motion in the Court below for a new trial, upon the ground that “ the verdict of the jury was…
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