Court Opinion

ID: 5614428
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 04:12:27.400386+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:37:12.418483
License: Public Domain

Stephen,s, J.
1. The alleged newly discovered evidence being in the nature of extrajudicial statements by one of the parties, made in' casual conversation, and not favored as ground for a new trial (Erskine v. Duffy, 70 Ga. 602 (5), 611), and besides, being merely cumulative and impeaching and likely on another trial to produce a different result, the court did not abuse its discretion in overruling the defendant’s motion 'for a new trial based upon this ground.
2. The evidence authorized the verdict rendered.

Judgment affirmed.

Jenkins, P. J., concurs.

Complaint; from Pulaski superior court — Judge Graham. May 21, 1921.
Marion Turner, for plaintiff in error. H. F. Lawson, contra.