Case ID: sc_282/html/0596-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gardner, Judge:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

0248
    B. G. LIVINGSTON, Respondent, v. CAROLINA TIMBER COMPANY, et al., Appellants.
    (320 S. E. (2d) 474)
    Court of Appeals
    
      William W. Watkins, of Turner, Padget, Graham & Laney, Columbia, for appellants.
    
    
      B. G. Livingston, pro se.
    
    Heard June 28, 1984.
    Decided Sept. 4, 1984.
   Gardner, Judge:

This is an action for payments due under a road construction contract; the jury found for the defendant; the trial judge granted a new trial for reasons not disclosed by the record. We remand.

In the case of South Carolina Department of Highways and Public Transportation v. Mooneyham, et al., 275 S. C. 205, 269 S. E. (2d) 329 (1980), the court reviewed its decisions about new trials granted by a trial judge and concluded that a decision of a trial judge granting a new trial will not be disturbed on appeal unless his finding is wholly unsupported by evidence, or the conclusion reached has been controlled by an error of law.

The trial judge gave no reason(s) for granting the new trial. The record does not disclose whether his decision was supported by evidence or was the result of an erroneous conclusion of law. The case is, therefore, remanded with instruction that the trial court issue its order setting forth the reason(s) for the granting of a new trial.

Remanded.

Sanders, C. J., and Goolsby, J., concur.