Barlow v. Daniels

Snyder, Judge:

This action was originally brought before a justice of Kanawha county by George T. Barlow against F. J. Daniels & Co.,to recover$53.85 due by contract; on the demand of the defendants, the case was tried by a jury of six before the justice and a verdict of $47.87 found for the plaintiff, on which the justice gave judgment. The defendants appealed to the circuit court and asked that court to try the case de novo, to which the appellee objected and asked the court to affirm the judgment of the justice, but the court, being of opinion that the statute under which the appeal had…