Rowland v. Gardner

Special ground 1 of the amended motion for a new trial contends that the verdict is totally null and void for uncertainty and ambiguity and is contrary to law because it does not cover the issues made by the pleadings and the evidence; that, since the case was brought in two counts, first for the recovery for timber cut from the land of the plaintiff, based on the manufactured value of the lumber produced therefrom, and second, for damages based on a trespass to the realty caused by damaging the young trees remaining on the property and injury to growing crops, the verdict in a lump sum, not…