Patterson v. F. Phinizy & Co.

Warner, Chief Justice.

This was an action .brought by the plaintiff against the defendants, to recover damages for having an execution under a pretended lien levied on the plaintiff’s property without authority of law. On the trial of the case the jury found a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $3,345 00, with interest from 1st of January, 1868. A motion was made for a new trial on the several grounds alleged therein, which was granted by the court, unless the plaintiff would write off from the verdict all over the sum of $1,410 00, whereupon the plaintiff excepted.

1. The court…