Harris v. Powers
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Hale. Tried before Hon. George H. Craig. The appellant, Harris, brought this suit in the court below against Powers, the appellee. The original complaint contained three counts. The first two counts were in trover, for the conversion of about five thousand feet of plank and lumber.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Hale. Tried before Hon. George H. Craig. The appellant, Harris, brought this suit in the court below against Powers, the appellee. The original complaint contained three counts. The first two counts were in trover, for the conversion of about five thousand feet of plank and lumber. The third count averred, that on the- day of -, 1870, plaintiff contracted for and purchased three framed cabins from one Kennedy, which were then situate on premises occupied by defendant; that before the purchase plaintiff applied to defendant to know whether Kennedy had .a right to…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
We feel it our duty to refer to what we conceive to be the unnecessary volume of the record in this cause. Some sixteen witnesses were examined; not a question raised on the legality of the evidence; not a charge given or asked on its weight or effect; not an exception reserved, or error assigned, which renders it necessary that we should know what any witness testified, or more than the tendencies of the evidence; yet, the entire testimony given on both sides, filling twenty-two closely written folio pages, is embodied in the bill of exceptions, and brought to this *143court, thus swelling the…
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