Caldwell v. Boyd

In this cause, errors are assigned here by appellants, the defendants below, which call in question (1) the correctness of the court's conclusions of law upon its special finding of facts, and (2) the overruling of their motion for a new trial.

After the cause was put at issue, it was tried by the court; and at the request of all the parties, the court made a special finding of the facts, and thereon stated its conclusions of law. The facts found by the court were substantially as follows:

1. One Eli Davis by his last will, which was probated in the year 1871, directed that $20,000 be set apart…