Giddens v. D. S. Etheridge Co.

The plaintiff, M. J. Giddens, .a minor, by next friend, C. E. Giddens, brought this suit before a justice of the peace to recover of the defendant, D. S. Etheridge Co., Incorporated, what had been paid on a trade for an automobile, to-wit: the value of an old car taken in and certain cash, which together, as was alleged, aggregated the sum of $179.50. He sought to disavow the trade and recover upon the ground of his minority. The justice gave judgment for the plaintiff in the sum of $100. The defendant appealed and the cause was heard before the circuit judge without the intervention of a…