We see no abuse of the discretion of the Judge in granting the new trial in this case. The verdict seems to us, as doubtless it did to the Judge, very unsatisfactory. Indeed, we are utterly at a loss to see on what it is founded. The jury seem to have been under some strange mistake, and to have entirely failed to get at the truth of the case, as it appears from the evidence. In such cases it is not only the right but the duty of the Judge to grant a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.