Case Name: Weakley County Road Commissioners et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad Company
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1910-04
Citations: 123 Tenn. 257
Docket Number: 
Parties: Weakley County Road Commissioners et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 123
Pages: 257–257

Head Matter:
Weakley County Road Commissioners et al. v. Illinois Central Railroad Company.
(Jackson.
April Term, 1910.)
APPEALS. Motion for new trial is essential in cases tried, before • circuit judge without a jury.
A motion for a new trial is as essential and necessary in a case tried by tbe circuit judge without the intervention of a jury, as it is in a case tried with or before a jury.
Case cited and approved: Railroad v. Johnson, 114 Tenn., 632.
PROM WEAKLEY.
Appeal in error from the Circuit Court of WeaMey County.
H. L. Hill, Special Judge.
J. W. Eankin, for plaintiffs.
Hall & Jones, for defendants.

Opinion:
Pee Curiam.
This is an appeal in error from the judgment of the trial'judge, who disposed of the case without the. intervention of a jury. Ho motion for a new trial was made in the court below.
In Railroad v. Johnson, 114 Tenn., 632, 88 S. W., 169, there was an intimation of our dissatisfaction with- the earlier holding that in such a case a motion for a new trial was not necessary. Since then it has been held that it is essential. This harmonizes the practice in all cases coming to this court from the common-law courts.
Judgment affirmed..