McCourt by and Through McCourt v. Abernathy

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that when the jury’s verdict is inadequate or excessive, the trial judge has the discretionary power to grant a new trial nisi
• trial judge alone has power to grant new trial nisi when he finds amount of verdict to be merely inadequate or excessive
• judge did not err in refusing to give a charge having a tendency to confuse the jury
• the amount of damages, actual or punitive, is largely within the discretion of the jury, as reviewed by the trial judge, and review by this Court is limited
• judge did not err in refusing to give a charge having a tendency to confuse the jury
• “The trial judge is required to charge only the current and correct law of South Carolina.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).