Alexander v. Hooks

It is now a statutory rule, imposed upon this court by the adoption of the new Code, that “in deciding appeals from the Chancery Court, no weight shall he given the. decision of the. chancellor upon the facts, but the Supreme Court shall weigh the evidence, and give judgment as they deem just.” — Code, 1886, § 675. This statute was manifestly designed to abrogate the rule heretofore established that the decree of the chancellor upon the facts would not be reversed or disturbed by the appellate court, unless we were clearly convinced that it was wrong, or, as was often said in equivalent…