Monday v. Millsaps

These petitioners for certiorari were defendants in a tort action in the Circuit Court wherein a verdict, and a judgment thereon, in the amount of $109',000 was entered on March 21,1952. Their motion for a new trial filed on April 3 was overruled on September 6, except that a remittitur in the amount of $19,0.00' was ordered and judgment was entered .at that time in that Court for that amount.

When the judgment of the Circuit Court was affirmed by the Court of Appeals it calculated interest on the $90,000 judgment from March 21, 1952. The contention made in the Court of Appeals by these…