Southern Express Co. v. Stovall

Citations

• 75 Fla. 1
• 77 So. 618

Syllabus

<p>1. Where the trial court concurs in the verdict rendered by a jury, by denying a- motion for a new trial, and there is evidence to support such verdict an appellate court should not disturb it in the absence of any showing that the jurors must have been improperly' influenced by considerations outside the evidence.</p> <p>2. If reasonable men might have found the verdict complained of, and the trial judge has refused to set it aside, an appellate court should not disturb it, and the appellate court is not justified in substituting its standard of what is reasonable for that of the jury.</p> <p>3. It is generally with great reluctance that courts set aside verdicts of juries upon a consideration of the testimony alone, and a second verdict upon the same state of facts, although the judges might have come to a different conclusion, is too strongly fortified by the judgment of twelve men, to warrant an appellate court in disturbing it except for strong reason.</p>