Court Opinion

ID: 6404784
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 11:48:03.566436+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:51:09.891375
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.

A new trial is granted; it appearing that the interest of the witness was not known to the plaintiff * until after the trial, and that it was known to the defendant,'who produced him. In a cause so nearly oalanced as this appears to have been, a little evidence is sufficient tu turn the scale, (a)

 An objection to the competency of witnesses, discovered after the trial, is not of itself a sufficient ground for a new trial, although it may have some weight with the court where the party applying appears to have merits.— Turner vs. Pearte, 1 D. & E. 717. —2 Arch. C. P 264.