Pate v. King

This is a dispossessory-warrant proceeding brought by Mrs. Sidney B. King against Edward T. Pate to recover possession of certain premises. The jury returned a verdict for possession and for $116.67, judgment was rendered accordingly, the defendant’s motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The case is here on two special and the general grounds of the motion for a new trial.

Special ground 1 of the motion is based on the refusal of the trial judge to permit the defendant to introduce certain official records and the testimony of Robert Maddox, an official in the office of the U.…