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· 6/20/1962

New Amsterdam Casualty Company v. Jordan

Citations

  • 359 S.W.2d 864

How courts have described this case

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

  • 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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