Hornsby v. Jensen

The plaintiff in error insists that the judge of the superior court erred in sustaining the certiorari, and in thereby setting aside a second consecutive verdict in his favor. It is, of course, well settled that after two or more consecutive verdicts, the evidence is to be taken by the reviewing court, whether on certiorari or writ of error, most strongly in favor of the prevailing party. Windsor v. Cruse, 79 Ga. 635 (7 S. E. 141). In Harrigan v. Savannah &c. Railway Co., 84 Ga. 793, it was helcl that the court erred in setting aside the verdict in favor of the plaintiff, because no…