McLaren v. Birdsong & Sledge
Supreme Court of Georgia
Case, in Muscogee. Tried before Judge Worrill, May Term, 1857. This was an action on the case, by Birdsong & Sledge, late partners in a mercantile business in the City of Columbus, against Peter McLaren, for suing out an attachment maliciously and without probable cause against plaintiffs, whereby their goods and merchandise' were levied on by the Sheriff and sold, at a great loss and sacrifice, and the business of plaintiffs broken up and destroyed: — damages laid at ten…
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Case, in Muscogee. Tried before Judge Worrill, May Term, 1857. This was an action on the case, by Birdsong & Sledge, late partners in a mercantile business in the City of Columbus, against Peter McLaren, for suing out an attachment maliciously and without probable cause against plaintiffs, whereby their goods and merchandise' were levied on by the Sheriff and sold, at a great loss and sacrifice, and the business of plaintiffs broken up and destroyed: — damages laid at ten thousand dollars. The defendant pleaded — first, the general issue; second, a special plea, that Birdsong & Sledge were…
1Opinion of the Court
McDonald J.
By the Court. delivering the opinion.
The counsel for plaintiff in error moved in the Court below, for a new trial on the several grounds of exception *269made by him to the rulings and decisions of the presiding Judge during the progress of the trial, and because the verdict of the jury was contrary to and against the weight of evidence, and because it was contrary to law and the charge of the Court.
[1.] We think the Court below erred in deciding, that M. M. Pettitt was a competent juror. The counsel for defendant below, proposed to swear him as to his competence, when the juror rose…
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