Bullock v. Joe Bailey Auction Co.

I dissent for the following reasons.

In reversing the trial court’s determination that no sale has been made, it seems to me that the main opinion departs from fundamental and important rules of review. The findings of the trial court are entitled to a presumption of correctness.1 We should assume that it believed those aspects of the evidence which support its findings; 2 and its refusal to find that a sale had been completed should be sustained unless the evidence was sufficient to compel such a finding.3

Pivotal findings of fact made by the trial court, which find support in the evidence,…