Fulton County v. Phillips

Action by Mrs. Phillips and Miss Cunningham against the county, to recover the value of land taken, and for damages resulting from acts of the defendant in widening a public road. At the first trial they obtained a verdict for $675 ; a second trial resulted in a verdict for $833.31 in their favoi’. The county excepted to the refusal of a new trial, and to the consideration by the court of certain affidavits by nine of the jurors who tried the case, which were submitted by the plaintiff's’ counsel after the motion for new trial was heard but before the decision thereon.

One of the grounds for…