Wettaw v. Retail Hardware Mutual Fire Insurance

Mr. Presiding Justice Edwards

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a petition by defendants below for leave to appeal from an order of the circuit court of Saline county setting aside a verdict in favor of petitioners and granting a new trial therein. Petitioners assign three reasons therefor: first, that the evidence in the case was so preponderately in their favor that no other verdict could properly have been rendered; second, the fact that they compensated the witnesses in their behalf, for their time in attending court, at a figure somewhat in excess of the witness fee fixed by…