Harrison v. Rutherford

Warner, Chief Justice.

This case came before the court below on two petitions of the plaintiff to have certain verdicts and judgments therein described set aside and vacated, and the cases reinstated on the docket of the superior court of Quitman county. As the same question was involved in both cases, they were ar*61gued together by consent. The statement of the facts in one case is all that is necessary to a clear understanding of the question presented for decision in both. The plaintiffs allege, in one of their petitions, that on the 20th of January, 1863, Crawford instituted his action of…