Hebel v. Scott

The appellee sued the appellant, in the ' Cass Circuit Court, to recover a piano, of the alleged value 1 of three hundred dollars, with damages for its detention. ■Upon an issue formed by the general denial, there was a trial by a jury, and finding, generally, for the plaintiff, and specially, among other things, that the value of the piano *227was two hundred dollars, and the damages for its detention nine dollars.

The clerk, in entering the judgment, provided that the plaintiff should recover the property and the damages, but did not state in the judgment that the plaintiff should recover the…