Chilcott v. Rea
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from -District Court, Yellowstone County; Geo. W. Pierson, Judge. Action by O. S. Chilcott against William Rea and others, copartners doing business under the firm name and style of Pryor Sheep Company. Judgment for plaintiff and defendants appeal from it and an order denying a new trial. The court erred in refusing to tax the costs of the witness? A. M. Goodrich.
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Appeal from -District Court, Yellowstone County; Geo. W. Pierson, Judge. Action by O. S. Chilcott against William Rea and others, copartners doing business under the firm name and style of Pryor Sheep Company. Judgment for plaintiff and defendants appeal from it and an order denying a new trial. The court erred in refusing to tax the costs of the witness? A. M. Goodrich. It allowed the plaintiff fees for “hotel bill, sleeper, expenses and railroad fare” of Goodrich from Topeka, Kansas, to Billings. The witness was entitled only to his per diem of three dollars per day and mileage within the…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. JUSTICE SANNER delivered
the opinion of the court.
The questions presented by these appeals are: (1) Sufficiency of the complaint; (2) sufficiency of the evidence; (3) the propriety of certain rulings in the admission of evidence, in the giving of plaintiff’s offered instruction numbered 1, and in the refusal of defendants’ offered instructions 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 11; (4) the allowance of a certain item of costs.
1. The complaint alleges ownership in the plaintiff of certain land, a portion of which had been reserved for pasture and upon five acres of which he had growing 100,000 young orchard…
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