Dickinson v. Mann

Jackson, Chief Justice.

[Dickinson et al. filed a bill against Mann. The trial *730resulted in a verdict and decree for complainants. Defendant made a motion for a new trial, which was granted, and complainants excepted. Various grounds of error were assigned, among them that the grant of a new trial was error; and that the motion was not male at the term at which the case was tried, nor was there any agreement or order sufficient to authorize a hearing in vacation. (There was an agreement and order, but it was claimed that they themselves were made after the adjournment of the term, and that they…