Mitchell v. Porter

The complainant, George Mitchell, doing’ business as Memphis Welding* Company, filed this bill against Dr. A. R. Porter, seeking a new trial of a case at law wherein judgment had been rendered against him in favor of the defendant in the bill. Generally stated, the ground was that the judgment had been rendered at a time and under such circumstances as that through no fault of his own the complainant had been deprived of an opportunity to file a motion for a new trial and preserve the evidence heard in the case at law by bill of exceptions and hence he had been precluded from seeking relief…