Matthews v. Poythress
Supreme Court of Georgia
Trover for a note. Tried before Judge Him., in Troup Supe1-rior Court, October adjourned term, 1847. This was an action of Trover, brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error in the Court below.
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Trover for a note. Tried before Judge Him., in Troup Supe1-rior Court, October adjourned term, 1847. This was an action of Trover, brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error in the Court below. Upon the trial, it appeared that one Simon Peteet made and delivered his promissory note to plaintiff for three hundred dollars, dated the 16th October, 1844, payable to the plaintiff or hearer, and due the 25th Decembei, 1845. On the 18th October, 1844, Peteet paid $72 on the note to plaintiff. The testimony on the part of the plaintiff proved, further, that plaintiff deposited…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
There are as many as twelve specifications of error in the assignment in this case. I shall endeavor to condense and simplify them as I proceed, without omitting to notice any one principle involved. The plaintiff in error insists—
[1.] That the Circuit Judge erred in instructing the Jury as to the character of arguments used by the counsel for the plaintiff, *294before the Jury, arising from the testimony. This exception presents no point of law upon which the Court is charged to have committed error. It goes to the right of the Court to comment, in…
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