Delee v. Hatcher

The plaintiff sues to recover from the defendant the sum of three hundred and twenty dollars, for building a cotton gin-house and press, on the plantation of the defendant.

The defense was, that the gin-house, etc., was so defectively constructed that it fell down on a calm day, in February, 1865, about two years after its completion ; and that the material used in the said building was thereby destroyed, and was a loss to her.

She reconvened, and claimed damages to the amount of five hundred dollars for the loss of the material.

There was a trial by jury, and a verdict was rendered in favor of…