Tennessee Central Railway Co. v. Vance

This suit was begun before a justice of the peace of Overton county by Dewey Vance against the Tennessee Central Railway Company, and from a judgment in favor of Yance the Railway Company appealed to the circuit court of Overton county, where the case was tried before the circuit judge, without a jury, and judgment was rendered in favor of Yance and against the Railway Company for $61.25 and “all the costs of the case except the plaintiff’s witnesses.”

A motion for a new trial on behalf of the Railway Company was overruled, and the Railway Company thereupon prayed an appeal (in error) to this…