Styron v. Loman-Garrett Supply Company

Defendant has a number of assignments of error to the admission of evidence over its objections and exceptions, and to the judge’s findings of fact. All of these assignments of error are overruled.

“When the parties waived a jury trial, [Judge Cowper] occupied a dual position: he was the judge required to lay down correctly the guiding principles of law, and he was also the tribunal compelled to find the facts. In such a trial the rules of evidence as to the admission and exclusion of evidence are not so strictly enforced as in a jury trial. If there was incompetent evidence admitted, it will…