Steamboat City v. Matthews

This case falls within the principle decided by this court in McAfee v. Ryan, 11 Mo. 365. The instructions were not excepted to, and indeed are admitted to bo a correct exposition of the law applicable to the facts in evidence. All the testimony was on one side, but the jury disregarded it, and the circuit court, who heard the witnesses, sanctioned the verdict of the jury. We must infer from this that the circuit court was satisfied with the course of the jury. The credit due to witnesses is a matter peculiarly for *249a jury, and any control over tbe finding of a jury in this respect could…