Lewis Manufacturing Co. v. Davis & Brandon

1. A ground of a motion for new trial complaining that the judge erred in excluding evidence must, in order to present any question for decision by the Supreme Court, set out either literally or in substance the evidence excluded; and reference in such defective ground to the brief of evidence for a more detailed statement of the evidence referred to will not cure the defect. Applying this rule to the fourth and fifth grounds of the amendment to the motion for new trial, it must be held that no question is there presented for adjudication.

2. The sixth ground of the motion, in so far as it…