Atlantic Compress Co. v. Chambliss

J. M. Chambliss brought suit in trover against the Atlantic Compress Company, for the recovery of five bales of cotton. The defendant filed a general denial at the first term, and at the trial term offered an amendment setting up that it was a nominal party acting as agent for the Georgia Cotton Company *748and the Central of Georgia Railway Company, and asking that they be made parties defendant. The court refused to allow the amendment; and to this ruling the defendant excepted pendente lite. Upon the trial the jury found for the plaintiff, and exception is taken to the judgment refusing the…