McFadden v. Buckley
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Clark county. Hon; D. W. Heidlebukg, Special Judge. Suit by Geo. H. McFadden et al. against W. W. Buckley et al. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff ap-. peals. Counsel on both sides filed elaborate briefs, but dealing only with the facts in the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, C.
The evidence in this record is overwhelming that the plaintiff was entitled to recover the compress storage *29charges, amounting to nineteen dollars and ninety-five cents. The evidence on the part of the defendant as to this item is so insufficient that, if a verdict had been found for the defendant on that testimony, the court should have promptly set it aside; and for this reason the court should have granted the peremptory instruction asked by the plaintiff for this item.
It is also insisted that there should have been a peremptory instruction for an item of seven dollars and…
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