Walters v. Smith

The only issue before the jury was, What was the correct amount due plaintiffs on the contract?

Defendants offered in evidence some seventy-eight receipts which they had received from plaintiffs for claimed payments on said contract. Plaintiffs admitted they had signed all these receipts and that they had received the money for all of them except seven. It clearly appears throughout the record, including the charge of the court, that the real and only issue before the jury was whether or not the seven receipts were given for money then received or were given as duplicate receipts for wrong…