Case ID: ga_123/html/0866-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ITish, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Turner v. Woodward.
    Submitted July 1,
    Decided August 5, 1905.
    Action for damages. Before Judge Reagan. Henry superior court. January 5, 1905.
    
      Marcus W. Beck and B. M. Smith, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John S. Gleaton, contra.
   ITish, P. J.

1. Where, by threats of imprisonment or promises to hold him harmless, A induces a constable to deliver to him property which is in the possession of the officer by virtue of a levy, and the constable is subsequently ruled by the plaintiff in fi. fa. and compelled to pay to him the value of the property so relinquished, A is liable to the constable for the loss or damage sustained by the latter by reason of such delivery of the property.

2. In such a case it was not error for the court, in instructing the jury, to use the words “loss” and “damage” interchangeably.

S. The charge of the court was full and fair; and the evidence, While conflicting, was ample to sustain the verdict.

Judgment affirmed.'

All the Justices concur, except Simmons, O. J., absent.