Morris v. Sheppard

The plaintiff’s petition alleged that the value of the two' bales of cotton sued for was $115. The petition was not amended. Upon the trial the plaintiff elected to take a money verdict for the highest proved value of the property between the date of the> .conversion and the date of the trial. The jury returned a verdict for $241.50, which, on motion for a new trial, was approved ,by' the court, and the defendant excepted to the refusal to grant him á new trial.

Under the ruling of the Supreme Court in Moomaugh v. Everett, 88 Ga. 67 (13 S. E. 837), and of this court in Pitts v. Bank of Shiloh,…