· 6/20/1962
New Amsterdam Casualty Company v. Jordan
Citations
- 359 S.W.2d 864
How courts have described this case
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- holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying a new trial when new evidence did not “bring to light a new and independent truth”
- holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion by denying a new trial when new evidence did not A bring to light a new and independent truth @
- noting that “public policy, looking to the finality of trials, requires that parties be held to diligence in preparing their cases, and that they shall not be allowed a second trial because they mistook the amount of testimony requisite.”
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Judges: Steakley
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