Brown v. M'Cleland

Judge Owsley

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an appeal from a judgment rendered in favor of the appellee, upon a covenant entered into by him, for the payment of eighty dollars in brick work.

On the trial in the court below, the court instructed the jury that they ought to give interest, unless there were particular circumstances on the part of the appellant, justifying a departure from the general rule, and the only question material to be noticed by the court, involves the propriety of those instructions.

Tnat the instructions ought not to have been given, is, in ettect, decided in…