Hooks v. Frick & Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice in Superior Court. Charge of Court. Principal and Agent. Payment. Promissory Notes. New Trial. .Attorney and Client. Argument. Before Judge Kibbee. Laurens Superior Court. January Term, 1885 To the report contained in the decision, it is necessary only to add the following grounds of the motion for a new trial: (1.) Because the verdict was contrary to law.
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Practice in Superior Court. Charge of Court. Principal and Agent. Payment. Promissory Notes. New Trial. .Attorney and Client. Argument. Before Judge Kibbee. Laurens Superior Court. January Term, 1885 To the report contained in the decision, it is necessary only to add the following grounds of the motion for a new trial: (1.) Because the verdict was contrary to law. (2.) Because the verdict was the result of the direction of the court in. this: The court said to the jury, “ Under the evidence and law of this casó, you are obliged to find for the plaintiff principal amount of notes, with…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This is an action commenced by attachment, brought by Frick & Company against G. S. Hooks, on certain promissory notes. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiffs, and defendant being denied a new trial, excepted, and assigned error on the grounds'alleged in the motion therefor.
1. There was no error in the charge of the court that the jury was obliged to render a verdict for the plaintiffs, because there was no evidence before the jury but the promissory notes. It is no expression- or intimation of opinion on evidence, in the sense of the statute, which prohibits an…
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