Briggs v. Clawson Bros.

This was an action to recover damages for the injury and killing of cattle, and for the burning over of a clover field and straw stack. The suit was originally brought before a Justice of the Peace and appealed to the circuit court of Williamson county, where it w.as tried by the judge without a jury, and resulted in a judgment for $658.87 in favor of the plaintiff Briggs. The defendant, Nashville Trust Company moved the court for a new trial, which was overruled, and it has appealed in error, and has assigned errors, and insists that there was no evidence to support the verdict: (1) Because…