Freeman v. McCormick Motor Car Co.

The appellant filed this suit in a justice of the peace court against the appellee, seeking to recover the statutory penalty of fifty dollars, and other damages alleged to have been sustained by him, by reason of the failure of the appellee to cancel on the record in the chancery clerk’s office, within one month after request so to do, a certain deed of trust executed by the appellant in favor of the appellee, and from a judgment in favor of appellant for ninety-five dollars there was an appeal to the circuit court. At the trial of the cause in the circuit court, the jury was peremptorily…