Case ID: ga-app_25/html/0647-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jenkins, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

11307.
    Branson v. Townsand.
    Decided September 17, 1920.
    Action for slander; from city court of Hinesville-—-Judge W. C. Hodges. January 5, 1920. .
    
      Dorsey & Mills, for plaintiff.
    
      Ben A. Way, for defendant.
   Jenkins, P. J.

Being unable to say, as a matter of law, that the trial judge abused his discretion in this, the first grant of a new trial, this court will not interfere. Civil Code (1910), § 6204; Holland v. Williams, 3 Ga. App. 636 (60 S. E. 331); Smith v. Maddox-Rucker Banking Co., 8 Ga. App. 288 (1) (68 S. E. 1092).

Judgment affirmed.

Stephens and Smith, JJ., concur.