Bruner v. Marcum

This suit was commenced before a justice of the peace on a promissory note, taken by appeal to the Cameron Court of Com-, mon Pleas, and by change of venue from that court to the Clinton Circuit Court. When the case was called for trial it was submitted to the court and tried without a jury.

The entry of judgment shows that the parties “ appeared and submitted the case for trial to the court,” and the court found for the defendant and rendered judgment accordingly. At the term when this judgment was rendered the plaintiff filed a motion for a new trial upon the sole ground that the court had…