Storm v. Green
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to tbe Circuit Court of Lincoln County. Hon. J. M. Smiley, Judge. This was an action of trespass by Green against Storm & Co., for the wrongful taking of three bales of cotton valued at $175, the damages claimed is $2,000. The jury rendered a verdict for $1,500. On motion for a new trial, plaintiff entered a remittitur of $1,058, when the court overruled the motion for a new trial, and let the judgment stand at $442. Green rented certain lands to Peter Harrison for…
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of Lincoln County. Hon. J. M. Smiley, Judge. This was an action of trespass by Green against Storm & Co., for the wrongful taking of three bales of cotton valued at $175, the damages claimed is $2,000. The jury rendered a verdict for $1,500. On motion for a new trial, plaintiff entered a remittitur of $1,058, when the court overruled the motion for a new trial, and let the judgment stand at $442. Green rented certain lands to Peter Harrison for 1873, át a rent of eight bales of cotton, due November 1, 1873.' In the latter part of that month, Green called on Harrison…
1Opinion of the CourtSimrall, J.
John J. Green had demised to Peter Harrison for the year 1873, a farm in the county of Lincoln, reserving a rent of eight bales of cotton, to be paid on the 1st of November. In the latter part of that month Green called upon his tenant for the rent, when Harrison delivered to him a lot of seed cotton, which, when ginned and baled, made three bales, which was all the cotton the tenant then had on the premises. Green took the cotton to Brookhaven *106for a market, and was negotiating a sale, when John Storm, the defendant, in a rude, angry and forcible manner, with the other defendants, took the…
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