Spring Term AD 1899
                   Tuesday May 9th
after hearing the evidence and the charge of the court
without leaving the box rendered the following
verdict to wit:
              We the Jury find for the plaintiff and
assess their damages at Nine hundred and Eighty six
10/100 Dollars: So say we all
May 9th 1899                      M.M. Tillman 
                                   Foreman
     Whereupon it is considered ordered and adjudged
by the Court that the plaintiff A.B. Shell and John H. Hunter
doing business under the firm name of A.B. Shell & Co
do have and recover of and from the said defendant
C.B. Easterlin the sum of Nine hundred and Eighty six 10/100
Dollars for their damages together with their costs in
this behalf expended taxed at Thirty three 67/100 Dollars and
the defendant in mercy &c.

(written in left margin)
canceled & discharged by ****
plaintiffs  July 7 1904
attest               W.W. Hampton
  H.C. Denton Clerk     atty of record for
 pr S.H. Wienges DC          plffs
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A.B. Shell and John H. Hunter        }
partners trading in the city of      }
Savannah in the State of Georgia     }
under the firm name of               } Assumpsit
A.B. Shell & Co                      }
         V                           }
C.B. Easterlin                       }
               Now this cause coming on to be heard
and the parties plaintiff and defendant being in
open Court by their respective attorneys, and the plea
of defendant heretofore filed in this cause being
withdrawn, default was entered for want of plea
  Thereupon a jury was called to assess the
damages and there came A.R. Crump M.M. May
A.V. Ellis J.T. Woods D.J. Richbourg and M.M. Tillman
who were duly empanelled and sworn to diligently
inquire of damages in this cause and a true
assessment make according to the evidence.
  And the Jury aforesaid after hearing the evidence
and the charge of the Court, without leaving the box
rendered the following Verdict to wit:
Verdict  We the Jury find for the plaintiff and assess
their damages at Twelve hundred and fifty four 38/100
Dollars. So say we all
May 9, 1899                  M.M. Tillman
                                   Foreman
  Whereupon it is considered ordered and adjudged
by the court that the plaintiffs A.B. Shell & John H. Hunter

(written in left margin)

cancelled and discharged
by **** plaintiffs
  July -7 1904
Attest                    W.W. Hampton
H.C. Denton Clerk         atty of record
pr S.H. Wienges DC           for plffs