Tomlin v. Bickerstaff

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Ground 4 of the amended motion for á new trial assigns error upon the following charge: “If you find for the plaintiff, the form of your verdict would be, ‘We, the jury, find for the plaintiff so many dollars,’ filling in the amount which in this case, as I have previously instructed you, must be an amount not in excess of the amount of $1463.32. And I instruct you, gentlemen, that in view of the pleadings in this case, that would be the only amount which you could find for the plaintiff. In other words, your verdict must be either for the plaintiff in the…