Costello v. Long
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 51, Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment of Municipal Court Philadelphia Co., Nov. T., 1914, No. 712, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Mary Costello v. George Long. Trespass to recover the value of a diamond. Before Bonniwell, J. At the trial it appeared that on September 16, 1914, the plaintiff took an unmounted diamond, as she claimed, to the defendant’s shop and left it with his clerk, Archibald Bryson, to have mounted in a ring.
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Appeal, No. 51, Oct. T., 1915, by defendant, from judgment of Municipal Court Philadelphia Co., Nov. T., 1914, No. 712, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Mary Costello v. George Long. Trespass to recover the value of a diamond. Before Bonniwell, J. At the trial it appeared that on September 16, 1914, the plaintiff took an unmounted diamond, as she claimed, to the defendant’s shop and left it with his clerk, Archibald Bryson, to have mounted in a ring. When the ring was returned to her, she claimed that a cheap white sapphire stone had been substituted in place of the diamond. The evidence…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Kephart, J.,
As we stated in Herring Brothers v. Weinroth, 61 Pa. 529, in an opinion recently handed down, “the disposition of questions of fact arising from testimony would have the same effect and should be treated in the same manner as though the evidence had been submitted to a jury at common law. This court will not disturb.the conclusions of the judge when based on proper evidence or inferences fairly deducible from such evidence.” While this is correct, where there is a motion for judgment non obstante veredicto denied by the lower court, we will examine the testimony to…
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