Case ID: dc_1/html/0128-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Brooke v. Peyton.
    A new trial will not be granted on affidavit that the plaintiff has since discovered testimony to discredit a witness who was examined at the trial, if that witness be not the only witness to the point on which he testified.
    Motion for new trial on the ground, that since the trial the defendant had discovered evidence, before unknown to him, tending to discredit Violet, the principal witness against the defendant.
   New trial refused. The only doubt was whether the discovery of evidence tending to discredit a witness who testified to circumstances only tending to prove the making and publishing the libel, was sufficient ground for a new trial; the witness not being the only witness to that point.

Marshall, J., absent.