Shepard v. Sherin
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Action to recover $130.52, brought in the district court for Faribault county, and tried without, a jury by Severance, J. Judgment was ordered for defendant, who appeals from an order granting a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Gilfillan, C. J.1
On the evidence, there could be no question of the main facts in the ease, especially that the overpayment was merely through mistake of fact, and not through any fraud or fault on the part of defendant; that he received it expressly for his principal, E. W. Sherin, and had paid the money over to-him the same day. These facts were found by the court below; and on the motion for a new trial the court, as appears from its memorandum filed, had no doubt of the propriety of those findings. But the court also found as a fact that the defendant so paid over the money without notice…
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