Turner v. Hardy

Bell, Chief Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the first special ground of the motion for new trial, it is contended that the judge erred in submitting to the jury questions 10 and 11, relating to the building that was destroyed by fire; in charging the jury in reference thereto; and in embodying in the decree an award of $500, based on the answers to such questions. In the briefs for the plaintiffs in error, it is stated that the allowance of $500 against John C. Turner for this building was contrary to law, but that “this might be corrected by direction to write it off.”…