McCaffrey & Co. v. Georgia Southern Railroad

Crawford, Justice.

This suit was brought by the plaintiffs in error to recover of the Georgia Southern Railroad Company, and John Tucker, receiver of the Selma, Rome & Dalton road, the value of a car load of metallic cotton ties, which they alleged were received by said railroad company, but which it failed to deliver.

On the trial the jury found for the defendants, and the plaintiffs, being dissatisfied with the verdict, moved for a new trial on various grounds of alleged error, both in the charge of the court and in the finding of the jury.

1. The complaint as to the finding of the jury was…