Porter v. Madrid State Bank
Supreme Court of Iowa
'Appeal from Boone District Court. — Hon. C. G. Lee, J udge. Action to recover back $259.44 with, interest, as the amount overpaid in the discharge of a note. Thene was a verdict for tire plaintiff in the amount claimed, and she ■appeals from 'the ruling of the court sustaining a motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
Many grounds for "new trial were alleged in plaintiff’s motion, but tire court recited in its rulings sustaining the motion that it did. so as to the first and second grounds thereof, and these are the only grounds Which need be considered. They are, first, “that the *619verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence”; and, .second, “that the verdict is a result of a failure on the part of the jury to comprehend and understand the evidence, and is one that no reasonable man understanding and- comprehending the evidence would agree to as just and correct.”
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