Lewis v. Pryor

The plaintiff in this case sought to recover $156 as damages for the alleged illegal conversion of a barrel of whisky. The petition was filed on March 13, 1916, and in an amendment allowed on January 17, 1918, the plaintiff elected to take a money verdict for the value of the property at the time of the conversion. Upon oral motion in the nature of a general demurrer, the court dismissed the petition on March 8, 1918, upon the ground that since the passage of the law approved March 28, 1917, prohibiting the ownership of liquors in Georgia (Ga. L. 1917, Ex. Sess., p. 7), recovery could not be…