Goodrich v. Drew
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action of book account, in which judgment to account had been rendered in the county court, and the case referred to an auditor, who disallowed the greater part of defendant’s account, and reported a balance due the plaintiffs of $30,06. No reasons were assigned in the report for the disallowance of the part of the defendant’s account, which was not allowed, and it did not appear that the auditor was requested to make a special report of the reasons for such…
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This was an action of book account, in which judgment to account had been rendered in the county court, and the case referred to an auditor, who disallowed the greater part of defendant’s account, and reported a balance due the plaintiffs of $30,06. No reasons were assigned in the report for the disallowance of the part of the defendant’s account, which was not allowed, and it did not appear that the auditor was requested to make a special report of the reasons for such disallowance, nor that any objection had been heretofore made,on the ground that no reasons for the disallowance were stated…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Williams, C. J.
The objections, which have been made to the several items of the plaintiffs’ account, present to the Court no question of law. If the auditor erred, it was an error in deciding the facts on the testimony before him. The charges numbered 2, 9, 18, 27, 29, were for services performed for the defendant, and for his benefit, and although at first charged to Goodrich & Barney, and Goodrich and Hopkins, they were not debtors to the plaintiffs therefor. Whether the charge was made to them by mistake, or if the reason given by the plaintiffs,…
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