85-7-149 - Issues and trial.
§ 85-7-149. Issues and trial.
The circuit court may direct the formation of such issues, to be tried before a jury, as may be necessary for the determination of all matters controverted in the pleadings; and such issues shall be tried by the same rules of evidence and practice that prevail in other cases at law; and the court may set aside verdicts and grant new trials and give judgments according to the justice of the case.
Sources: Codes, 1857, ch. 39, art. 10; 1871, § 1613; 1880, § 1388; 1892, § 2706; 1906, § 3066; Hemingway's 1917, § 2426; 1930, § 2266; 1942, § 364.