Case Name: Boyce vs. Yoder
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1829-10-29
Citations: 2 J.J. Marsh. 515
Docket Number: 
Parties: Boyce vs. Yoder.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 25
Pages: 515–515

Head Matter:
Boyce vs. Yoder.
Ejectment.
Error to the Spencer Circuit; Wm. L. Kelt,’/) Judge.
Surprise. Evidence. 'JVew trial.
October 29.
Surprise, produced by rejection of' deed which party did believe, and had right to believe, from-the circumstances, was admissible evidence, is good ground for new trial.
Hat din,for plaintiff; C.A. Wickliffe, íor defendant.

Opinion:
Judge Robertson
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The court erred in not granting a new trial. The surprise was sufficiently made out, according to the rule in Holmes, &c. vs. M'Kinney, IV. Mon. 4-5. Both the party and his counsel believed and'had a right to believe, that the document which was-rejected, was the original deed from Fitzhugh. It is even very doubtful whether it was- proper to suffer the clerk's certificate to be explained or contradicted by parol testimony.
Judgment reversed and cause remanded for a new trial.