VALDOSTA MERCANTILE COMPANY, A CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,
v.
T. E. WHITE, DEFENDANT IN ERROR
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This case involves a second appeal by Valdosta Mercantile Company regarding a claim of property ownership against an attachment writ. The court affirmed the lower court's judgment, finding sufficient evidence to support the jury's verdict in favor of the attaching creditor.
The court held that the jury's verdict was supported by the evidence and that the judgment entered was in the proper form, consistent with prior rulings. The court found no reversible errors.
“For the second time a jury rendered a verdict in favor of T. E. White, the defendant in error, upon which the court entered the following judgment:”
Establishes the procedural posture and the outcome of the second trial.
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Shackleford, C. J.
This is the second time this cause has been brought here by the same plaintiff in error. For the opinion rendered on the former writ of error see Valdosta Mercantile Co. v. White, 52 Fla. 453, 42 South. Rep. 633, wherein will also be found a statement of the facts, which we deem it unnecessary to set forth here. Suffice it to say the issue to be tried and determined was the right of property in a certain stock of goods upon which the defendant in error had caused a' writ of attachment to be levied and to which the plaintiff in error had interposed a claim under Sections 1665 and 1197 of the Revised Statutes of 1892, now Sections 2129-and 1626 of the General Statutes of 1906. For the second time a jury rendered a verdict in favor of T.
E. White, the defendant in error, upon which the court entered the following judgment:
“Wherefore it is considered by the court that the right of property in and to the said property Jevied upon by the sheriff herein is in the defendant in attachment, D.
D. Blanton and O.
W. Parker, and is not in the claimant the said Valdosta Mercantile Company, a corporation under 'the laws of the State of Georgia, and that the same was and is subject to said levy under the writ of attachment in said cause; and it is further considered and adjudged that the said plaintiff in attachment, T.
E. White, do have and recover of and from, the said claimant, the Valdosta Mercantile Co., a corporation, under the laws of the State of Georgia, and of and from G.
R. Battle, C.
A. Owens, J.
B. Varn and H.
E. Miller, the sureties on the claim bond of the Valdosta Mercantile Co. a corporation, as aforesaid claimant the sum of $889.04 the value of the property levied upon under the writ of attachment in said cause and claimed by the Valdosta Mercantile Co. a corporation as aforesaid as fixed by the officer levying such attachment, and that the said plaintiff in attachment, T.
E. White, further recover the sum -of-dollars and- — , cents as costs ip this cause, and that plaintiff in attachment, T.
E. White, do have execution therefor. ”
The Valdosta Mercantile Company, the claimant, seeks to'have this judgment tested here by writ of error and has assigned five errors, which, however, we do not consider it necessary to discuss in detail. The last three assignments question the form of the verdict and judgment as well as attack their validity. In the opinion rendered upon the former writ of error we referred to and approved of what was said in Geiger v. Henry, 44 Fla. 208, 32 South. Rep. 874, as to the proper form, of a verdict and judgment for the plaintiff in attachment in a claim case, and we make the same reference with approval now. All of the points adjudicated upon the former writ of error become the law of this case and are no longer open for discussion. See Anderson v. Northrop, 44 Fla. 472, 33 South. Rep. 419; Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. v. Jones, 50 Fla. 225, 39, South. Rep. 485; Hoodless v. Jernigan, 51 Fla. 211, 41 South. Rep. 194; Jacksonville Electric Co. v. Bowden, 54 Fla. 461, 45 South. Rep. 755, S. C. 15 L.
R. A. (N. S.) 451. In the instant case, as in the case of Geiger v. Henry, supra, the verdict of the jury was a simple finding in favor of the plaintiff in attachment, and, in accordance with the principle enunciated in the cited case, judgment was properly entered thereon against the claimant and its sureties for the sum of $889.00, the valuation of the property fixed by the sheriff, there being' no question of valuation before the jury. These assignments have not been sustained.
The first two assignments are based upon the overruling of the motion for a new trial, the grounds thereof relied upon and urged before us being that the verdict was not supported by the evidence and that the plaintiff was taken by surprise at the defense undertaken to be set up by the defendant, in that the levy of the attachment was made before the agent of the plaintiff .bought the goods. Setting out the evidence adduced and discussing the same would prove a profitless task and could serve no useful purpose. As this court has repeatedly held both in civil and criminal cases, where there is evidence to support the verdict it will not be disturbed or set aside by an appellate court as being against the evidence, unless it may well be assumed that the jury was improperly influenced by considerations outside the evidence. See Sims v. Hodges, 34 Fla. 498, 16 South. Rep. 317; McNish v. State, 47 Fla. 69, 36 South. Rep. 176; Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co. v. Beazley, 54 Fla. 311, 45 South. Rep. 761, wherein numerous authorities will be found collected. As this court has also held, it is generally with great reluctance that courts set aside the verdict of a jury upon a consideration of the testimony alone; and a second verdict upon the same state of facts, even though the judges might have come to a different conclusion, is too strongly fortified by the judgment of twelve men, to-warrant an appellate court in disturbing it except for strong reasons. See Wilson v. Dibble, 14 Fla. 47, and Pensacola & Georgia R. R. Co. v. Nash, 12 Fla.
497.
The evidence adduced at the second trial made even a stronger case for the plaintiff in attachment. As was also held in Orthing v. Gundersheimer, 12 Fla. 640, “If from a general review of the case there was evidence to justify the verdict, and it does not clearly appear that there have been errors in law or fact which necessarily operated to the prejudice of defendant, a new trial will licit be granted for surprise.”
Plaving found no reversible errors, the judgment must be affirmed.
Cockrell and Whitfield, JJ., concur. Taylor, Hooker and Parki-iill, JJ., concur in the opinion.
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Wilson v. Jernigan, 57 Fla. 277 (Fla. 1909)…this court. See Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. v. Beazley, supra; Simms v. Hodges, 34 Fla. 498, 16 South. Rep. 317; Schultz v. Pacific Insurance Co., 14 Fla. 73, text 94; McNish v. State, 47, Fla. 69, 36 South Rep. 176; Valdosta Mercantile Co. v. White, 56 Fla. 704, 47 South. Rep. 961. Numerous other decisions of this court will be found collected in these cited authorities. We would also call attention to the language used by Chief Justice Anderson in Carter v. Bennett, 4 Fla. 283, text 356, which was quoted…
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- Atl. Coast Line R.R. Co. v. Beazley, 54 Fla. 311 (Fla. 1907)
- McNish v. State, 47 Fla. 69 (Fla. 1904)
- Jacksonville Elec. Co. v. Bowden, 54 Fla. 461 (Fla. 1907)
- Hoodless v. Jernigan, 51 Fla. 211 (Fla. 1906)
- Wilson v. Dibble, 14 Fla. 47 (Fla. 1872)
- The Pensacola & Ga. R.R. Co. v. Miles Nash, 12 Fla. 497 (Fla. 1868)
- Louisville & Nashville R.R. Co. v. Jones, 50 Fla. 225 (Fla. 1905)
- Geiger v. Henry, 44 Fla. 208 (Fla. 1902)
- Simms v. Hodges, 34 Fla. 498 (Fla. 1894)
- The Valdosta Mercantile Co. v. White, 52 Fla. 453 (Fla. 1906)