Case Name: Coggin v. Parks
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1890-05-09
Citations: 85 Ga. 516
Docket Number: 
Parties: Coggin v. Parks.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 85
Pages: 516–517

Head Matter:
Coggin v. Parks.
Newly discovered evidence which would probably not change the result on another trial, and which is cumulative, will not require a new trial.
May 9, 1890.
New trial. Evidence. Practice. Before Judge Boynton. Pike superior court. April term, 1889.
Reported in the decision.
E. E. DuPree and A. A. Murphey, for plaintiff
W. J. Iverson, by brief, for defendant.

Opinion:
Simmons, Justice.
The only ground insisted upon for a reversal of the judgment of the court below in refusing to grant a new trial in this case, was that of newly discovered evidence. It seems from the record that the plaintiff in error, after the trial of the case, found a receipt given to him by one Patrick for money which Coggin, the plaintiff' in error, had paid out for Parks. The court did not err in refusing to grant a new trial upon this ground. Coggin testified in the court below that he had paid out certain money of his own at the request of Parks, but could not remember exactly to whom he paid it. Parks denied this, and claimed in his testimony that ail the money that Coggin had paid out was his (Parks') money. The jury believed Parks. We do not think, if a new trial were granted, that this receipt would be decisive of the case before another jury. Besides, it is cumulative in its nature, going to sustain the testimony given by Coggin. Judgment affirmed.