Opinion · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Greene v. Farlow
Greene v. Farlow, 138 Mass. 146 (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 1884)
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- Opinion
- Court
- Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts
- Date
- 1884-11-17
- Topic
- bankruptcy
By the Court. The power is vested in the Superior Court, in its discretion, to set aside the verdict in any case tried in that court, and to order a new trial, for any cause for which a new trial may by law be granted. Pub. Sts. c. 153, § 6. This includes a case where that court is satisfied that, by reason of some accident, mistake, or misfortune in the conduct of the trial, a new trial is necessary to prevent a failure of justice.
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The power is vested in the Superior Court, in its discretion, to set aside the verdict in any case tried in that court, and to order a new trial, for any cause for which a new trial may by law be granted. Pub. Sts. c. 153, § 6. This includes a case where that court is satisfied that, by reason of some accident, mistake, or misfortune in the conduct of the trial, a new trial is necessary to prevent a failure of justice. Cutler v. Rice, 14 Pick. 494. The motion of the demandants, and the affidavit in support of it, state a case which authorized the Superior Court to grant a new trial, if it was satisfied that justice required it. The motion is addressed to the discretion of that court; and its decision, in the exercise of that discretion, is not open to exception, and cannot be revised by this court.
Exceptions overruled.