Cappel v. Meeker Sugar Refining Company

This is an appeal, by the defendant, from a judgment against it for $5,000, with 5 per cent, per annum interest thereon from judicial demand and costs of the suit. The plaintiff has answered the appeal and prays that the judgment be amended by increasing the amount thereof to $10,400, the sum sued for, and, as thus amended, that it be affirmed.

The suit is for damages for the wrongful seizure and detention of plaintiff’s plantation during the years 1928 and 1929.

This is the third appeal in the case to this court.

Plaintiff sold his plantation to C. E. Knoll on terms of credit and reserved the…