Bates v. Austin

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered against Bates, the plaintiff in the warrant, on the trial of a traverse taken to the inquest of a jury had under the law regulating the proceedings in cases of forcible entries and detainers.

The only question necessary to be noticed in the determination of the cause, involves, an enquiry into the court’s refusal to award a new trial.

The application for a new trial was made upon the ground of the verdict being against evidence. The warrant was brought for a forcible detainer, and Bates, the plaintiff,…