Trippe v. Wynne
Supreme Court of Georgia
• Practice in Supreme Court. Principal and Agent. Verdict. Accounts Stated. Mistake. Auditors. Practice in Superior Court. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee Superior Court. November Term, 1885. On April 17, 1S83, Mrs. V. C. Renfroe brought suit against Thomas K. Wynne, and subsequently filed an amendment to her declaration.
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• Practice in Supreme Court. Principal and Agent. Verdict. Accounts Stated. Mistake. Auditors. Practice in Superior Court. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee Superior Court. November Term, 1885. On April 17, 1S83, Mrs. V. C. Renfroe brought suit against Thomas K. Wynne, and subsequently filed an amendment to her declaration. As amended, the declaration contained three counts, first on an open account fot’ $9,296.00, for money had and received, with interest from April 8, 1872, to March 1, 1880, at twelve per cent, per annum, and from March 1, 1880, at eight per cent, per annum, the rates of…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
From the report of this case at the head of this opinion, it is manifest that the justice of the case, under the law applied to the facts, has not been reached, and that the several exceptions and assignments of error are sufficiently specified to authorize a ruling on the vital point involved, though no motion for a new trial was made below;
It will be seen that, though from an account stated in 1880, as well as from various letters of defendant to plaintiff’s testatrix, the rate of interest agreed upon and calculated between the parties up to 1880 was twelve per cent.,…
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