Meredith v. Beadle

This is an action at law, and the trial was begun to a jury; but at the close of the evidence, the parties stipulated that the jury should be discharged, and the findings made by the court. We find it unnecessary to determine all of the questions which have been argued. The parties concede that it is an action at law, and, it having been tried as such, the decision of the trial court on questions of fact has the same weight, force, and effect, as would the verdict of a jury; and if there is evidence, and the fair inferences to be drawn therefrom, from which the trial court could properly…