Case Name: Turner, et al., executors, vs. Scott
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1886-12-21
Citations: 77 Ga. 270
Docket Number: 
Parties: Turner, et al., executors, vs. Scott.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 77
Pages: 270–271

Head Matter:
Turner, et al., executors, vs. Scott.
The issue in a claim case being, whether the claim was fraudulent as being an attempt to cover up the property of the defendant infi. fa. and to prevent his creditors from collecting their debts, and there being sufficient evidence to authorize a verdict subjecting the property, this court will not interfere with the discretion of the court below in refusing to grant a new trial on the ground that the verdict was without evidence to support it.
December 21, 1886.
Claims. New Trial. Before Judge Simmons. Meriwether Superior Court. August Term, 1885.
Reported in the decision.
A. H. Freeman, by W. Y. Atkinson, for plaintiff in error.
B. F. McLaughlin, for defendant.

Opinion:
Blandford, Justice.
This was a claim case, and the issue presented and tried was, whether the claimant's claim was fraudulent as an attempt to cover the property of defendant in execution, and to prevent his creditors from collecting their debts. The jury found the property subject. Claimant moved for a new trial, which the court refused, and exception is taken and error assigned thereon. The motion for new trial alleges as error the refusal of the court to grant a new trial, because the verdict of the jury is without evidence to support it. There is some evidence to authorize the verdict, and from which the jury might have inferred fraud between claimants and defendant in execution. Under such circumstances, this court will not control the discretion of the judge of the superior court in refusing to grant a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.