In re M. J. Hoey & Co.

(after stating the facts as above). We do not find it necessary to re-examine the findings made in the court below. After confirmation by the District Judge of the commissioner’s report, we should in any event have to be well satisfied that they were wrong before we reversed them, Brookheim v. Greenbaum, 225 F. 763 (C. C. A. 2), and this is especially true where all the documentary evidence looks one way. In such a case, where one party asserts that what both have solemnly and repeatedly declared, they did not mean at all, he bears a heavy burden of proof, Atwater v. Guernsey, 254 U. S. 423,…