Herndon v. Sims

There will be nothing new or profitable in elaborating the first and second grounds. As to them, we will only say that if any of the exceptions are-even abstractly meritorious (and we are not willing to say that they are), they were too immaterial to justify the reversal of a verdict so well supported by the testimony as the one in the present case. One point in the record perhaps deserves specific attention. It is this: The amount sued for was $1,430.80 and interest. When the jury came into court with a verdict, and counsel for the plaintiff was about to receive it and publish it, he called…