City of Stillwater v. Swisher
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from ihe District Court of Payne County; before Jno. H. Burford, Trial Judge. STATEMENT OR If ACTS. This is an action begun in the district court of Payne county, by the defendant in error, Jacob Swisher, against the city of Stillwater, plaintiff in error, in which the plaintiff alleges that the defendant is a city of the first class, located in Payne county, Oklahoma Territory.
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Error from ihe District Court of Payne County; before Jno. H. Burford, Trial Judge. STATEMENT OR If ACTS. This is an action begun in the district court of Payne county, by the defendant in error, Jacob Swisher, against the city of Stillwater, plaintiff in error, in which the plaintiff alleges that the defendant is a city of the first class, located in Payne county, Oklahoma Territory. That while traveling upon one of the public strrets of said city, which was regularly platted, dedicated and used by the city as a street, the plaintiff while exercising reasonable care and caution, was injured…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
IewtN, J.:
The first eight pages of the brief and argument of counsel for plaintiff in error are devoted to an extensive discussion of the evidence, in an attempt to show that the verdict of the jury was not authorized by the evidence, but we have examined the entire record in the case, and all of the evidence therein contained, and under the oft repeated and well recognized rule of this court, that findings of fact by a jury, or the trial court would not be disturbed by this court, where the evidence reasonably tends to support such finding, and as the evidence in this…
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