Sullivan v. Phillips
Indiana Supreme Court
From Boone Circuit Court; Samuel B. Artman, Judge. Action by Florence R. Phillips against John E._Sullivan. From a judgment for plaintiff, the defendant appeals. (Transferred from the Appellate Court under §1405 Burns 1908, Acts 1901 p. 590.)
1Opinion of the CourtMyers, J.
This appeal is from a recovery for an alleged reward offered by appellant for the recovery of certain books.
The error relied on is in overruling the motion for a new trial, on the ground of the evidence not being sufficient to support the judgment.
Appellant had for a number of years been connected with a corporation as president, which was in the hands of a receiver, and a creditor had instituted an investigation into its affairs in court, during which certain bdok^of the company, material to the inquiry then in hand, disappeared, under circumstances which led appellant to feel that he was…
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