Case ID: ga_114/html/0661-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Merchants National Bank of Rome et al. v. Fouché & Fouché.
    Argued January 11,
    Decided February 6, 1902.
    Equitable petition. Before Judge Henry. Eloyd superior court. April 9, 1901.
   Simmons, C. J.

The first grant of a new trial will not be disturbed by this court unless the verdict was demanded by the law and the evidence. This rule applies notwithstanding the fact that the judge had previously granted a nonsuit and that ruling had been reversed by this court and the case reinstated.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.

Nat. Harris, Dean & Dean, and Neel & Neel, for plaintiffs in error. Fouché & Fouché, W. S. McHenry, G. A. Thornwell, R. A. Denny, Rowell & Rowell, and A. G. King, contra.