Union Trust & Deposit Co. v. Paulhamus

Miller, PresideNT:

On the trial below plaintiff obtained a verdict for $1,323.49, by way of damages for timber alleged to have been cut and taken by defendants from decedent’s lands, which verdict was on defendants’ motion, set aside and a new trial awarded them. To review that judgment the present writ of error was awarded by this court.

Numerous grounds of their motion were assigned by defendants, but it does not distinctly appear whether the judgment below was based on all or only some particular ground assigned. Counsel for plaintiff in error say in their brief that the reason assigned was…