Crowe v. Trickey
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. This was an action brought by Crowe in the District Court of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, against Trickey, administrator of the estate of N. H. Chapin, deceased, to recover the sum of five thousand dollars' as commission on a sale alleged to have been effected by Crowe for Chapin, during his life, of a one-fourth interest in a mine.
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA. This was an action brought by Crowe in the District Court of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, against Trickey, administrator of the estate of N. H. Chapin, deceased, to recover the sum of five thousand dollars' as commission on a sale alleged to have been effected by Crowe for Chapin, during his life, of a one-fourth interest in a mine. The case was tried by the District Court without a jury, a jury having been waived by agreement of the parties, and that court made findingsvof fact and stated conclusions of law therefrom, upon which it…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The Supreme Court óf the Territory .was called upon to make a statement of the facts of the case in the nature of a special verdict-, and also the rulings of the court in the ad- . mission or rejection of evidence when excepted to. Our jurisdiction is limited to the consideration of such exceptions and to determining whether the findings of fact support the judgment. Harrison v. Perea, 168 U. S. 311; Young v. Amy, 171 U. S. 179.
The statement of facts required by the statute should present clearly and precisely the ultimate facts. And while it may be objected to the statement in this case that…
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