Andrade v. Southern Pine Lumber Co.

On Rehearing.

Defendant in error suggests that our decision in.this case is “quite novel.” We merely invoked a principle as old as jurisprudence, that a party to litigation is entitled to a fair trial. In answerng question No. 6 — the issue submitting the amount of damages suffered by plaintiff in error as a proximate result of the collision — the jury arbitrarily rejected all the evidence on that'issue and. found, “Nothing”; under the undisputed evidence the jury was compelled to find a substantial sum in answer to this question. Defendant in error would support this finding by the…