Owen v. Sweat

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The only question raised under the present record is whether the court erred in refusing a motion to continue the case. There is another 'ground in the amendment to the motion for a new trial, as well as the ordinary general grounds of the original motion for new trial; but since no reference is made to anything in the brief other than the two grounds of the motion for new trial with reference to the continuance, all other assignments of error must be treated as having been abandoned by the plaintiff in error.

The motion for a continuance was based upon the…