Case ID: tex-l-r_3/html/0053-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "'Willie, chief justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NEVINS vs. McKEE,
    Appeal from Grayson county.
    
      Practice. — An attempt, by petition filed after adjournment of the trial term of the court, to obtain a new trial of the cause, is a relief which a court of chancery has power to grant, but will not do except upon facts which show the clearest and strongest reason for interposition.
    
      Same. — To make such showing, it is not sufficient that it appears that injustice has been done, or that the party had a good defense, which lie was prevented from making. It must further be shown that he has not resorted to chancery, because of any inattention or negligence on his part ; a clear case of diligence as well as merit; a good defense which he was prevented from making by fraud, accident or the acts of the opposing party, wholly unmixed with any fault or negligence on his own part.
    
      Same. — That the attorney for the party seeking such relief misunderstood the scope and extent of his employment, is not a sufficient showing.
   Affirmed.

'Willie, chief justice.