Locklear v. Morgan
Court of Appeals of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Stolz, Judge.
Defendants appeal from verdicts and judgments for the plaintiffs in this suit for damages tried in the Superior Court of Catoosa County. Held:
1. Enumerations of error 1 and 2, based on the general grounds that the verdicts are contrary to law and to the evidence, are not meritorious.
2. Enumerations of error 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 complain of the ex-cessiveness of the verdicts. A review of the evidence does not sustain the defendants’ contentions. While the verdicts may have been large, the court cannot say that as a matter of law they were the result of gross mistake and undue bias, or…
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