Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad v. Peacock

LIGON, J.- —

The proceedings in this case were commenced by the appellee against the appellants, before a justice of the peace, under the act “ to regulate and define the liability- of railroad companies,” approved February 10th, 1852 (Sess. Acts 1851-2, pp. 45-6.)' The justice of the peace rendered judgment for the plaintiff for the sum of fifteen dollars, when the case was removed by writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court. In -that court a trial was had on the merits, before the judge, without the intervention of a jury. The proof is set out in the bill of exceptions, and establishes that…