Kevreson v. Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.

This is one of the many cases, appealed to this Court as a matter of right under former practice, where controlling issues of fact only have been tried on mutual waiver of a jury; whereupon the losing party has come here with allegation that the trial judge’s findings of fact are contrary to the clear preponderance of the evidence. *

The instant case was tried thoroughly. Both counsel left no fact unturned or unrevealed which bore upon the triable issue. Such issue, reducing it to essence, was whether plaintiff Kevreson’s rather manifest negligence, in causing two of the heating boilers in his…