Pruitt v. Watson

Miller, Judge:

On demurrer by the defendants to the evidence, the .jury returned a verdict of three hundred dollars damages, subject to the law of the ease to be determined by the court. Having found the law to be for the plaintiff, the court pronounced the judgment in her favor against the defendants for three hundred dollars and costs, now complained of.

The suit was begun before a justice of the peace of McDowell County, and from the adverse judgment of the justice against them defendants appealed to the circuit court, with the result already indicated.

There were no pleadings except the…