Case Name: Graham vs. Eastman
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1885
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 51
Docket Number: 
Parties: Graham vs. Eastman.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 51–51

Head Matter:
Graham vs. Eastman.
Ejectment, from Telfair. New Trial. Ejectment. (Before Judge Kibbee.)
Roberts & Smith ; C. C. Smith; Harrison & Peeples, for plaintiff in error.
DeLacy & Bishop, by J. H. Lumpkin ; R. K. Hines, by brief, for defendant.

Opinion:
Hall, J.
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This court will never interfere with the first grant of a new trial where there is any evidence at all upon which a different verdict could be sustained.
(a.) Where a plaintiff in ejectment does not rely upon possession, but undertakes to show title, he must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary ; and where there are circumstances which might warrant a verdict for the defendant, the court below will not be reversed for granting a new trial after a verdict in the plaintiff's faior.
Judgment affirmed.