Case ID: wash_96/html/0049-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

[No. 13818.
    Department Two.
    April 28, 1917.]
    G. H. Mottinger, Respondent, v. Ellis Reagan, Appellant.
      
    
    Appeal — Review—Findings. Findings on conflicting evidence will not be disturbed on appeal where the evidence does not preponderate against them.
    Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Benton county, Linn, J., entered April 22, 1916, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action in tort, tried to the court.
    Affirmed.
    
      Parker 8? Holden, for appellant.
    
      Moulton 8¡- Jeffrey, for respondent.
    
      
       Reported in 164 Pac. 595.
    
   Per Curiam.

— This is an action wherein the plaintiff, Mottinger, seeks recovery of damages which he claims resulted to him from the defendant’s allowing sheep to graze upon lands owned and held by him under lease, and thereby injuring the pasturage thereof. Trial before the court without a jury resulted in findings and judgment in favor of plaintiff, awarding him damages in the sum of $75, from which the defendant has appealed.

There are no questions involved in this controversy other than of fact, which the trial court was called upon to determine from oral testimony, much of which was in sharp conflict. A review of the evidence convinces us that we would not be warranted in holding that it preponderates against the court’s conclusion. We do not feel called upon to discuss it in detail.

The judgment is affirmed.