Case ID: pa-super_63/html/0201-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Kephart, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Kenney v. Barry, Appellant.
    
      Appeals — Review—Refusal of new trial.
    
    The granting or refusing a motion for a new trial is iso largely a matter of discretion in the court below that the appellate court will not attempt to review its exercise, except in a clear case of abuse of that discretion.
    Submitted Feb. 29, 1916.
    Appeal, No. 335, "Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment of Municipal Court, Philadelphia Co., May T., 1915, No. 510, on case tried by the court without a jury in case of Roy L. Kenney and Joseph T. Kenney v. Thomas Barry.
    Before Or-lady, P. J., Henderson, Head, Kephart, Trexler and Williams, JJ.
    Affirmed.
    Assumpsit for goods sold and delivered.
    The case was tried by Cassidy, J., without a jury.
    Judgment entered for plaintiff in the sum of $242.65. Defendant appealed.
    
      
      Error assigned was in overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial.
    
      J. Quincy Hunsicker, Jr., and J. Quincy Hunsicker, for appellant.
    
      Thomas 8. Lanard, for appellees.
    May 8, 1916:
   Opinion by

Kephart, J.,

The single assignment of error complained that the court below overruled defendant’s motion for a new trial. “The granting or refusing of a motion for a new trial is so largely a matter of discretion in the court below that we will not attempt to review its exercise, except in a clear case of abuse of that discretion”: First Natl. Bank v. Fidelity Trust Co., 251 Pa. 536. There is no question of law involved in the motion other than the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. The plaintiffs’ claim was supported by the testimony of two witnesses. It was contradicted in its main features by one witness. The questions involved were essentially questions of fact and the weight of the testimony was for the judge trying the case without a jury.

Assignment of error overruled and judgment affirmed.