Gray v. Bullard

This action was originally commenced before a justice of the peace, upon trial before whom judgment was rendered for the plaintiff. Defendant appealed, upon questions of law alone, to the district court, where the judgment of the justice was affirmed. From the judgment of *279affirmance defendant appeals to this court. The action was in the nature of trespass de bonis asportatis, and it appears from the proceedings before the justice that in several instances the plaintiff was permitted, against the objection of defendant, to show special damages resulting from the trespass complained of, as, for…