Swift & Company v. Hall

1. The plaintiff’s first contention is that the trial court should have granted its motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict because the testimony of the defendant was contradictory and equivocal and should be construed most strongly against the defendant.

The defendant testified that he did not own the store where the plaintiff delivered the meat it had sold on open account, that he had loaned his son the money to purchase certain fixtures, and that when his son left the store he took it over in order to protect the money he had loaned his son. The plaintiff introduced in evidence…