Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Harris

The plaintiff in error excepts to the refusal of the judge of the superior court to sanction a petition for certiorari. In the petition presented to the judge, the verdict of a jury in a justice’s court, and the judgment thereon, are excepted to upon the ground that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence as to the market price, or value, of certain cottonseed, alleged to have been lost by the carrier. The plaintiff in the justice’s court brought a suit for three bushels of Egyptian cottonseed, delivered by him to the defendant company at Waycross, to be shipped to Campville, Florida.…