Keen v. Jackson
Keen v. Jackson
Opinion of the Court
1. A motion for new trial was presented to and approved by the judge, and was set for a hearing in vacation. A separate order was pas'sed, allowing the movant to amend the motion “at any time before the final hearing; brief of evidence to be filed subject to revision and approval at the hearing. . . If the hearing of the motion for new trial be in vacation and the brief of evidence and the charge of the court have not been filed in the clerk’s office before the date of the hearing, said brief of evidence and charge of the court may be filed in the .clerk’s office at any time within ten days after the motion is heard and determined.” A brief of evidence was filed before the -hearing, and the order of approval contained no direction with respect to filing. Held, that there was no merit in the contention, made in the brief of counsel for defendant in error, that the brief of evidence sent up as a part of the record can not 'be considered, because the court did not authorize it to be filed >as a part of the record in the case.
2. When considered in the light of the pleadings and other evidence, there was no merit in the fourth ground of the amended motion for new trial, which complains of the admission of certain testimony over the objection that it was irrelevant.
3. This was an action to enjoin the defendant from working for turpentine purposes the trees growing on the “Honeygall Tract” of land in
4. It was admitted that the “Honeygall Tract” as described in the plaintiff’s deed embraced a portion of the “Spears and Bailey Tract.” There was no evidence as to how much the “Honeygall Tract” and the “Spears .and Bailey Tract” interlapped, nor as to the amount of damage done by the defendant to the “Honeygall Tract.” Under the circumstances an injunction would have been authorized against cutting the timber on any part of the “Honeygall Tract.” The judge therefore was not authorized to direct a verdict for the defendant on the ground that the plaintiff had failed to identify with greater particularity the land on which the alleged trespass was being committed.
Judgment reversed.
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