People ex rel. Coon v. Plymouth Plank Road Co.

Cooley, J:

Tlie motion for a new trial in this cause is denied. If good cause for a new trial existed, tlie motion should hayo been made at tlie last term; the report having been on file considerably more than a month before that term closed.' But wo think no good cause existed. What is relied upon is, that the attorney for respondents, upon whom they depended for the trial of tlie case, was unable from illness to attend to it when the trial took place, and therefore formally withdrew from the case, serving a written notice thereof *250upon counsel for tho people, who nevertheless wont on with tho…