Clarke v. Woodward

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the general grounds and in special ground 5 of the motion for a new trial, the defendant contends that the verdict is contrary to the evidence and without evidence to support it. The evidence, while conflicting, authorized the jury to find that the defendant was interested in obtaining a coffee shop or a hotel dining room for E. L. Moseley; that, he advanced money to Moseley to operate dining rooms in the Albemarle Hotel, in Toccoa, Georgia, and in the Hotel Hern, in Franklin, North Carolina; that these dining rooms were operated under the name of…