Grant v. General Baptist Convention

An action of bail-trover was brought in the city *393court of Macon, the value of the property being alleged as $75. The plaintiff elected to take a verdict for damages, instead of a verdict for the specific property, and the jury, finding in the plaintiffs favor, gave $1 damages, whereupon the court entered up judgment for the plaintiff and against the defendant for the costs, amounting to about $40. The defendant filed a motion in the city court to vacate the judgment so far as the feature of costs was concerned, and to retax them, the insistence being that they should have been taxed against…