Spriggs v. Crane Used Auto Co.

Balph Spriggs filed his application for certiorari, alleging substantially (1) that there came on to be tried a suit on a contract in writing for the sum of fifty dollars in the civil court of Fulton County, before a judge and jury; that a copy of the suit and contract was attached to the petition for certiorari; that at the return term petitioner filed his sworn plea and answer and a written demand for a jury trial; (3) that the ease proceeded to trial and resulted in a directed verdict for the plaintiff, to which petitioner excepted on the ground that there was a fatal variance between the…