Gill v. Patton
This text of 10 F. Cas. 379 (Gill v. Patton) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
instructed the jury that they were as much bound to give interest on the arrears of rent as on any other debt by specialty; that it is in the power of the jury to refuse interest; and if they refuse, it is in the power of the court to grant a new trial.
Yerdict for plaintiff, including interest.
A new trial was afterwards granted on the ground of misdirection of the jury by the court
[See Cases Nos. 5,427-5,420.]
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