Hawley v. Griffith
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 454, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Northumberland Co., Sept. T., 1896, No. 56, sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report.
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Appeal, No. 454, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Northumberland Co., Sept. T., 1896, No. 56, sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report. Exceptions to auditor’s report. The facts appear by the opinion of SlMONTON, P. J., of the 12th judicial district, specially presiding, which was as follows: The facts upon which the questions involved in this case arise have not been definitely found by the auditor, and hence it has been necessary for us to gather them from the testimony and evidence filed with his very meager report. Some time in 1896, E. R. Griffith, the husband of Gwennie…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Sterrett,
The unsatisfactory condition of the auditor’s report in this case is largely due to the fact that he made no definite or detailed findings of fact, except in his answers to requests presented by counsel; and some of these findings appear to he conclusions from other facts not shown to.have been found by him. In such a condition of the record, as is here presented by the auditor’s report, the general rule, as to tbe weight that ought to be given to an auditor’s findings of fact, cannot be urged with much strictness or force. In addition to that, the auditor…
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