Court Opinion

ID: 7156292
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:09:33.843605+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:12.986788
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Lewis:
There are several reasons, each of itself sufficient, why a new trial in this case was properly refused, and the petition asking it was properly dismissed.
The proceedings and report of the processioners being subsequent to the trial between the parties and the judgment of the circuit court fixing the boundary of the land, did not constitute “newly discovered evidence” in the meaning of the Civ. Code (1876), §344. Even if the report of the processioners had been made previous to the trial, it would not have been competent evidence, because of the want of notice that is required by law to be given. The proceedings weré merely ex parte, affording not even prima facie evidence of the boundary of the land. The evidence was in its character only cumulative of what had been offered at the trial upon the question of boundary, and consequently not such as authorizes a new trial.
The judgment must be affirmed.