Paige v. . Willet

Upon the trial of this cause, it would seem to have been the effort of counsel on both sides, or at least such was the result of their efforts, under a cloud of testimony, to obscure the real merits of the controversy. The question in issue was a very simple one, presented directly by one or two allegations in the complaint, not only not denied, but distinctly admitted by the answer, and all beyond these, both in the pleadings and the evidence, seems to me to have been quite superfluous. The action was to recover the balance alleged to be due on an execution issued upon a judgment recovered…