Nagel v. Nedoba

Bell, Presiding Judge.

Plaintiffs in error except to the judgment of the trial court dismissing their motion for new trial and to the subsequent ruling dismissing their motion to reinstate their motion for new trial.

The motion for new trial was on the general grounds only but no brief of evidence accompanied the motion. Held:

It is always essential in passing upon what are commonly called the “general grounds” of a motion for new trial that the court consider the evidence. Thus, a motion for new trial must be dismissed where it is based on the general grounds only and is unsupported by a brief…