Barnett v. Thirkield

The Chancellor and the Court of Appeals are in sharp disagreement as to their respective findings from the evidence presented orally to the Chancellor while proceeding to try this case according to the forms of Chancery. Thereby is placed upon this Court, it having-granted the Thirkield petition for certiorari, the duty of reviewing the evidence de novo, accompanied by a presumption that the decree of the Chancellor is correct “unless the preponderance of the evidence is otherwise”. Code Section 27-303.

By a contract of three months duration expiring on November 14, 1954, Mr. Thirkield and…