Case ID: ga-app_29/html/0505-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

13720.
    SCARLETT v. WRIGHT.
    The discretion of the trial judge in granting a new trial will not be controlled by this court under the evidence in this case.
    Decided February 9, 1923.
    Action on bond; from city court of Wayeross — Judge Crawley. December 5, 1921.
    
      Blalock & Bedding, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John J. Moore, contra.
   Bell, J.

This action was against a surety of the plaintiff’s husband upon a ne exeat bond. A verdict was returned in favor of the defendant. Thereafter the court granted the motion of the plaintiff for a new trial, and to this judgment the defendant excepted. There was some evidence tending to show a breach of the bond, and it follows that the trial judge had a discretion in granting or refusing the motion; and the exercise of that discretion in favor of the movant is not, under the law, to be controlled by this court.

Judgment affirmed,.

Jenkins, P. J., and Stephens, J., concur.