Rooker v. Parsley

— This case was twice tried. The appellant prevailed upon the first trial, and the court granted the appellee a new trial. Upon this ruling is based one of the assignments of error.

The general rule is, that appellate courts will not review the action of a trial court in granting a new trial. It is only where it is made to appear, and that very clearly and plainly, that substantial injustice was certainly done, that the ruling will be disturbed. A party ashing the reversal of a cause, upon the ground that a new trial was erroneously awarded, must present an unusually strong case. This is • not…