
    Moseley vs. Evans et al.
    
    1. The verdict is clear, precise and definite as to the only issue tha^was or could be presented.under the pleadings.
    2. Where the only issue was,.whether a paper offered was a copy of. an alleged lost will, a finding that there was not sufficient evidence, to establish the' copy -was” necessarily a 'finding that the paper propounded was not, in substance, the last will and testament of the party.
    
      (a.) A verdict is to receive a reasonable construction and a like intendment, and will not be avoided, unless from necessity. Code, §3501.
    Judgment affirmed.
    March 11, 1884.
   Hall, Justice.

[This case was before the Supreme Court before, and is ¡reported in 70 Ga., 333. The jury, on the present trial, .found the following verdict:

“We, the Jury, find for the caveators, and that sufficient has not 'been submitted to us to authorize the establishing of the alleged copy ■as the will of W. A. Evans.”]  