Wickersham v. Hurd

This action was originally commenced before a justice of the peace, by appellee against appellant. On the first trial the jury found for plaintiff, in the sum of $52.48. On the trial of appellant’s appeal in the circuit court, the jury again found for plaintiff, but only in the sum of $35.08.

It is urged, as a ground of reversal, that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence. The testimony is contradictory in the extreme, and it must be admitted it is difficult to determine with which party is the weight of the- evidence, but two juries having found the issues for appellee, we are…