Spackman v. Byers
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ¶ ON the trial of this cause in the Court of Common Pleas ot Chester county, on the 12th and 13th November, 1811, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, (the defendant in error! exceeding in amount the damages laid in the dey °. ° claration.
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In Error. ¶ ON the trial of this cause in the Court of Common Pleas ot Chester county, on the 12th and 13th November, 1811, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, (the defendant in error! exceeding in amount the damages laid in the dey °. ° claration. Judgment being entered for the sum found by the verdict, the record was jemoved by writ of error to Court, where, when the case was called up for argument, on _ _ _ , /-n. t » r i . r > . the 22d December, 1820, Tzlghman9 for the defendant m error, asked leave to enter a remittitur for the excess of damages found by the iurv beyond those…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court permitted the record to be carried back to the Court of Common Pleas, in order that they might amend it, if they thought proper, by a release of the surplus damages j and at this term, the record being returned with an amendment that removed the objection as to the amount of damages, the judgment was affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
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