Carlisle v. Callahan
Supreme Court of Georgia
Damages. Practice in Superior Court. Evidence. Torts, Practice in Supreme Court. Before Judge Branham. Polk Superior Court. February Term, 1886. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
Callahan sued Carlisle for damages in forcibly entering and holding certain property used by him to house his hands and mules whilst engaged in railroad work, and recovered a verdict for $550.00. Thereupon Carlisle made-*321a motion for a new trial. The court granted it unless in six days the plaintiff reduced the verdict by writing the damages down to $250.00. The plaintiff wrote the verdict down accordingly, and the defendant excepted on two grounds, first, because the court had no power to order the damage lessened, it following from his doing so that the verdict is his'…
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