Hamilton v. McEwen

This action arose in a justice’s court wherein James McEwen was sued on an account amounting to $16.80 for groceries alleged to have been furnished the family of the defendant. Plaintiff obtained judgment for $12.80 in the justice’s court, after a change of venue, but upon appeal to the circuit court, the court, sitting without a jury, heard the evidence and rendered judgment in favor of the defendant.

*543I. There are five specifications of error in the motion for a new trial. The first is that the court erred in excluding competent evidence offered by the plaintiff, and the second is that the…