Lefere v. Krohn
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. H. M. Graham, Judge. Suit by Pascale Lefere against Henry Krobn and otters. Judgment for tbe defendant, and tbe plaintiff appeals. We are at a loss to present argument in a case of this sort. To prove to an impartial mind that a peremptory instruction was the grossest outrage in this case we are up against tbe difficulty one would have to prove that one and one are two.
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Appeal from circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. H. M. Graham, Judge. Suit by Pascale Lefere against Henry Krobn and otters. Judgment for tbe defendant, and tbe plaintiff appeals. We are at a loss to present argument in a case of this sort. To prove to an impartial mind that a peremptory instruction was the grossest outrage in this case we are up against tbe difficulty one would have to prove that one and one are two. Even tbe embrio lawyer knows that when there is contradictory testimony, a case for tbe jury has been made, but in this case not only was tbe testimony contradictory, but as…
1Opinion of the Court
Holden, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.'
The. appellant, Lefere, sued the appellees to recover the value of certain timber logs claimed to have been delivered to and converted by the appellees to their own use, under an agreement that the appellant was to deliver the logs to the appellees, who were to saw them into lumber for the appellant, and that appellant was to pay the appellees five dollars per thousand feet for sawing said lumber when delivered to the appellant. After- the conclusion of the testimony, the court granted a peremptory instruction for the defendant, from which…
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