Case ID: ga_134/html/0398-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Holden, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Fincher v. Stanley Electric Manufacturing Company.
    April 21, 1910.
    Attachment. Before Judge Beagan. Butts superior court.
    February 19, 1909.
    
      Frank Z. Curry and O. M. Duke, for plaintiff.
    
      Y. A. Wright, for defendant.
   Holden, J.

An attachment was issued for $1,110, on January 31, 1905, upon affidavit made that day stating such amount to be due by the defendant to the plaintiff. A declaration was subsequently filed, alleging that the defendant owed the plaintiff ex contractu $1,100, and that the same became due January 31, 1905. The record discloses no plea of defense filed by defendant. Upon the trial of the case a verdict was rendered as follows: “We, the jury, find for the plaintiff the sum of $300, with interest at 7 Held, that the pi-oper construction of the verdict is that the interest was to be computed on the principal sum of $300 from January 31, 1905, and that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment accordingly. 22 Enc. Pl. & Pr. 921; Gray v. Conyers, 70 Ga. 349, 355; Beckwith v. Carleton, 14 Ga. 691; Van Winkle v. Wilkins, 91 Ga. 93 (10), 106 (7 S. E. 644, 12 Am. St. R. 299); Phillips v. Behn, 19 Ga. 298; Jackson v. Jackson, 47 Ga. 99; Mitchell v. Addison, 20 Ga. 50.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur, except Beck, J., disqualified.