Smith v. Daniel

HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action for breach of promise of marriage, brought by the appellant, in which the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. An undue amount of time and space was devoted, in the briefs and at the argument, to questions of fact as to which the parties are foreclosed in this court. Where there has been, as there was here, substantial evidence in support of the verdict, we may consider only questions of law properly saved during the trial of the ease. While there were thirty-seven assignments of error, only two were presented to the court at the oral…