Case Name: The North & South Street Railroad Co. v. Crayton
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1891-01-14
Citations: 86 Ga. 499
Docket Number: 
Parties: The North & South Street Railroad Co. v. Crayton.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 86
Pages: 499–499

Head Matter:
The North & South Street Railroad Co. v. Crayton.
Judgment will not be arrested for uncertainty in tbe verdict as to amount where the finding of the jury is for a specific sum “ less amount of freight ” and there is no freight involved in the controversy. The superadded words are meaningless and may be treated as surplusage.
By two Justices.
January 14, 1891.
Judgment. Verdict. Practice. Before Judge Gober. Floyd superior court. March, term, 1890.
Reported in the decision.
Reece & Denny and Dabney & Fouché, for plaintiff in error.
Nunnally & Neel, contra.

Opinion:
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The motion in arrest of judgment was properly overruled. The verdict was in these words: "We, the jury, find for plaintiff eight hundred dollars ($800.00), less amount of freight, with interest; also, setting up lien, and find property subject set forth in declaration." The words "less amount of freight" are surplusage. There was no freight involved in the issue on trial. Nothing of the sort was mentioned anywhere in the pleadings. The verdict is therefore for eight hundred dollars less nothing, and this is equivalent to eight hundred dollars simply. The jury having found no amount by which it is to be diminished, it cannot be diminished at all. Judgment affirmed.