Hall v. Harrington
Colorado Court of Appeals
Appeal from the District Court of Arapahoe County. This suit and the one following, of Harrington v. Johnson, post, p. 483, were tried together, and both appeals were argued and submitted at the same time, though upon different briefs.
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Appeal from the District Court of Arapahoe County. This suit and the one following, of Harrington v. Johnson, post, p. 483, were tried together, and both appeals were argued and submitted at the same time, though upon different briefs. This comes from the circumstance that they are the outgrowth of another litigation, but were necessarily brought against two people because they concerned different lots of property which had been transferred to them by trust deeds operating as a security for alleged debts of George Harrington. One general statement will suffice for both. The differentiating…
1Opinion of the CourtBissell, J.
The first point to which our attention is directed by counsel for the appellant is put thus : “ The court erred in finding the material issues joined in favor of the plaintiff.” Unless we consent to build on this foundation, we are without the material with which to construct the building according to the appellant’s plan. Appellate courts are sometimes somewhat chary of expressing their conclusions respecting testimony, and are wont to shield themselves behind the tolerably well established rule that the findings of a trial court, like the verdict of a jury, must be taken as conclusive on…
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