Bankers Trust Co. v. Dockham

This is an appeal from a decree of the Superior Court. The evidence given at the hearing before the trial judge of that court and taken by a stenographer appointed pursuant to Equity Rule 29 (1926) is before us as well as the findings of fact made by the judge. Such a record requires this court to consider the evidence reported and to form our independent judgment with regard to the truth of the findings upon which the decree is predicated. Where the material facts appear from uncontradicted or documentary evidence and the inferences to be drawn therefrom, the findings of the trial judge may…