Case Name: Eliza W. White et al., v. Edward M. Benjamin et al.
Court: New York Superior Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1895-12-18
Citations: 70 N.Y. St. Rep. 912
Docket Number: 
Parties: Eliza W. White et al., v. Edward M. Benjamin et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 70
Pages: 912–913

Head Matter:
Eliza W. White et al., v. Edward M. Benjamin et al.
N. Y. Supr. Ct.,
December 18, 1895.
Smith & Dougherty and L. S. Tenney, for app’lts; Whitlock <6 Simonds, (W. O. Beecher, of counsel), for respt’s.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
To warrant a new trial in this case the practice requires not only that the newly-discovered evidence be material, and that it has been dis covered since tlietrial, but that the evidence could not, by the exercise of reasonable diligence, have been sooner discovered; and that it is so decisive in character as to make it appear with reasonable certainity that on another trial it would change the result. The defendants did not present a case bringing them within the rule stated, and no error was committed by the court below in denying their motion. The order appealed from must he affirmed, with costs.