Smith v. Van Tine

Complaint is made that the circuit judge, perhaps by inadvertence, so shaped his instructions to the jury as to withdraw their attention from the principal question of fact in the case, and to lead them to suppose no such question was made. We do not agree in this criticism, but have no occasion to comment upon it.

The suit was brought by Mrs. Yan Tine to recover the amount of small loans made by her to Smith and her husband John K. Yan Tine, while they were in business together as partners. Several little loans appear to have been made at different times, notes being taken therefor in the…