Pelican Assurance Co. v. American Feed & Grocery Co.

The question here involved is the same that was considered and disposed of in Hall v. State, 110 Tenn., 366, 75 S. W., 716. In that case, as in this, the minute entry was that the defendant moved “the court in arrest of judgment 'and for a new trial;” and it was there held that, whether the motion was single, “embracing two distinct, if not incongruous, matters of procedure,” or the entry was construed as the “equivalent of a recital of the two motions,” yet the necessary inference would be “that the motion in arrest was first made, and . . . ivas disposed of first.” In this condition of the…