Bryan v. Acee
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trespass, vi et armis. Tried before Judge Worrill, m Talbof Superior Court, September Term, 1858. This was an action of ¡trespass, brought by the defendants in error, as trustees of Jackson Academy, in the county of Talbot, against the plaintiff in error.
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Trespass, vi et armis. Tried before Judge Worrill, m Talbof Superior Court, September Term, 1858. This was an action of ¡trespass, brought by the defendants in error, as trustees of Jackson Academy, in the county of Talbot, against the plaintiff in error. The declaration alleged, that the plaintiff in error, on the sixteenth day of January, in the year 1855, broke into the school-house of defendants in error, situated on part of lot of land number 42, in the 23d district of Talbot county, and tore down said school-house, and carried away the materials, and converted them to his own use.…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
McDonald J.
delivering the opinon.
We consider the damages given by the jury, in this case, high, under the evidence; but we do not consider them so excessive as to warrant the inference of partiality, prejudice, or corruption on the part of the jury who rendered the verdict, especially under the charge of the presiding Judge. The damages are laid in the declaration at two thousand dollars. The highest value of the house which had been *92torn down and removed, proven by any witness, was two hundred and fifty dollars; the lowest value from thirty to one hundred dollars. A verdict for…
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