¶1In this case this court is satisfied that the jury were properly instructed upon the law involved in it. The question of damages was within their discretion, and the court sees no reason to disturb their verdict, on account of any excess in that respect. The motion is dismissed.
29 S.C.L. 553
Baring v. Heyward
Court of Appeals of South Carolina
Decided January 15, 1844
Court of Appeals of South Carolina · decided 1844-01-15
Before O’Neall, J. Colleton, Spring Term, 1842. This was an action of trespass for cutting and otherwise injuring a trunk of the plaintiff’s rice fields on his Grove plantation. It appeared in evidence that the fields were cultivated in rice, and that a bank ran through and divided them in 1798.
Decided 1844-01-15