Pepper v. Gainesboro Telephone Co.

This case is not styled correctly. It is here styled as it was in the court below. It should be styled Gainesboro Telephone Company, plaintiff in error, v. J. B. Pepper, defendant in error, as judgment was rendered .against the defendant below and it has appealed to this court.

This was an action for “damages for cutting a tree on plaim tiff’s land,’’ that originated before a Justice of the Peace and was appealed to the circuit court of Warren county where it was tried by the judge and a jury. The defendant below filed two written pleas; first, a plea of not guilty, and second, that the…