Tully v. Despard

Snyder, Judge:

This is a civil aclion commenced by M. Tally against C. S. Despard & Co. before a justice of Wood county to recover $147.14 for work and labor performed by the plaintiff for the defendants. The justice gave the plaintiff judgment for his claim, and the defendants appealed to the Circuit Court of that county, where the case was tried by a jury of six, and a verdict found for the plaintiff for $135.50, on which the court entered judgment. From this latter judgment the defendants have obtained this writ of error. The record shows that the jury was sworn “to try the issue” between…