Melton v. United Retail Merchants

This is a contract action in which a jury returned a verdict for the defendant, and plaintiff, appealing from the resulting judgment, prays for a new trial. It is a most involved and extraordinary case. Each of the parties to the appeal contends, and plausibly argues, that the story of their business relationship, as told by the other, is so fantastic as to be beyond belief; and we may say, in this connection, that an examination of the record, which contains a transcript of testimony nearly a thousand pages in length, and documentary exhibits sufficient to fill a small suitcase, leaves us…