Case ID: cal-unrep_1/html/0019-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ITEYDENFELDT, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ANDREW LAWSON, Respondent, v. JAMES McGEE, Appellant.
    No. 1005;
    February 18, 1856.
    Appeal. — A Verdict Made upon Conflicting Testimony is not to be disturbed.
    New Trial — Newly Discovered Evidence — Hearsay.—A new trial should not be awarded on the ground of newly discovered evidence which is only hearsay.
    APPEAL from Superior Court, San Francisco County.
    Baldwin & Bowman for respondent; H. B. Jones for appellant.
   ITEYDENFELDT, J.

— Where the evidence is conflicting or susceptible of two constructions, we have always refused to disturb the verdict or finding. The newly discovered evidence relied on for a new trial was only hearsay, and therefore properly disregarded.

Judgment affirmed.

I concur: Murray, C. J.