Morris Storage & Transfer Co. v. Wilkes
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for breach of contract, from city court of Atlanta— Judge Reid. September 11, 1906. Mrs. Wilkes sued for $300 damages on account of the failure -of the defendant storage company to deliver to her, on demand, ■certain household goods that she had entrusted to it for keeping.
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Action for breach of contract, from city court of Atlanta— Judge Reid. September 11, 1906. Mrs. Wilkes sued for $300 damages on account of the failure -of the defendant storage company to deliver to her, on demand, ■certain household goods that she had entrusted to it for keeping. It appeared that the defendant had suffered the goods to be removed from its warehouse upon the exhibition, by a constable, of .a paper purporting to be an attachment in favor of the R. S. •Crutcher Furniture Company against Mrs. Wilkes. Under the •evidence and the court’s charge the jury found for the plaintiff…
1Opinion of the CourtRussell, J.
The plaintiff in error complains, that its motion for new trial was refused; and this is the only assignment of error in the bill of exceptions. The motion was based on the general grounds, and on four grounds which were added to the original motion by amendment. We will first consider the amended grounds, because, under the ruling of this, court in Crankshaw v. Schweizer, ante, 363, there is no merit in the general grounds, unless some error produced or contributed' to the result and the verdict complained of.
The first ground of the amended motion is, that the verdict is contrary to the…
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