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 *130propounded 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.
[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.”]
73 Ga. 129
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