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· 4/15/1873

McAlexander v. Puryear

Citations

  • 48 Miss. 420

Syllabus

<p>1. Practice — verdict—new trial. — It is the province of the court to respond to the law, and of a jury to respond to the facts *, and therefore, the verdict of a jury will not be disturbed unless it be manifest from the whole record that, it was clearly wrong, or unless misdirection or other apparent error may have produced it.</p>

Judges: Peyton

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