Lauter v. Simpson

This action was for the price of two carloads of lumber. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the appellee for the exact amount named in the bill of particulars. A few of the items set out in the bill may be conceded to be illegal, but we think that the interest due upon the claim, if the latter was just and owing, as the jury found it to be, was more than sufficient to cover the amounts of the erroneous items in the bill of particulars. There is nothing to show how the jury arrived at the amount named in the verdict, and we must presume in favor of the correctness of the amount found, by…