Case ID: ga_116/html/0351-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "3?ish, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Macon Consolidated Street Railroad Company v. Jones.
    Submitted July 8,
    Decided August 9, 1902.
    Case. Before Judge Nottingham. City court of Macon. January 8, 1902.
    
      Bacon, Miller & Brunson and W. C. Nottingham, for plaintiff in error. M. Felton Hatcher and T. J. Cochran, contra.
   3?ish, J.

Unless the verdict rendered was absolutely demanded by the evidence — which does not appear in this case — this court will not undertake to decide whether or not the trial judge abused his discretion in granting a first new trial, even though the grant thereof was based solely upon a single question of law, in the determination of which it was unnecessary to consider the evidence in the case. Weinkle v. Railroad Co., 107 Ga. 367; Watson v. Equitable Mortgage Co., 112 Ga. 253; Harvey v. Bowles, Ib. 363; McCain v. College Park, Ib. 701; Carter v. Dunson, 113 Ga. 374; Thornton v. Travelers Ins. Co., 116 Ga. 121.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lewis, J., absent.