Credit Clearing House Adjustment Corp. v. Stanfield

1. “The power of the superior courts [and city courts] to grant new trials, being expressly conferred by statute, as well as arising from common-law principles, is not limited by any absolute and invariable rule as to the number of times of its allowable exercise, but the presumption of the legality of such grant, generally speaking, weakens upon each concurrent verdict.” Taylor v. Central R. Co., 79 Ga. 330 (6) (5 S. E. 114) ; Stewart v. Central of Georgia Ry. Co., 3 Ga. App. 397 (60 S. E. 1).

2. “After one such grant, a subsequent grant on account of alleged conflict between the evidence and…