Southern Express Co. v. Hilton

Hilton sued the express company in a justice’s court, alleging that it received at Tallapoosa $1,100 to be by it carried and delivered to him at Kramer; that it carried to Kramer the bag in which it received the $1,100,. and there delivered the bag with $1,000, but failed and refused to deliver to him the remaining $100 ; and that it was therefore due him $100 with interest. He confessed judgment for costs, and appealed to a jury in the justice’s court. The jury found for him $100 principal, with interest. The evidence showed, that the cashier of a bank at Tallapoosa, with one Guthrie,…