Case ID: iowa_57/html/0442-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Day, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Woodman v. Dutton.
    1. Practice: finding of the court: sufficiency of evidence. The finding of the court stands as the verdict of a jury and cannot be distrubed unless so clearly opposed to the evidence as to indicate that it was the result of passion or prejudice.
    
      Appeal from Polk Circuit Court.
    
    Thursday, December 15.
    The plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of $2,363.23 on account of alleged deposits, made by himself, and by one Stolp, his assignor, with the defendant as a private banker. The defendant alleges that he paid all of the money deposited, to the plaintiff, and to his assignor, Stolp, and fully settled the same. The cause was tried to the court, and judgment was rendered for the defendant. The plaintiff appeals. This case was before us on a former appeal, and is reported in 49 Iowa, 398.
    
      Barcroft, Gatch & McCaughan, for the appellant.
    Phillips, Goode & Phillips, for the appellee.
   Day, J.

The only point relied upon is that the finding of the court is not sustained by the evidence. The case is one of a clear conflict of testimony. The finding of the court stands as a verdict of a jury, and cannot be disturbed unless so clearly opposed to the evidence as to indicate that it was the result of passion or prejudice rather than of a deliberate and honest weighing of the evidence introduced.

Upon the former appeal, on evidence less satisfactory for the defendant than that now submitted, some of the members of this court were of opinion that the preponderance was in favor of defendant, and would have been better satisfied with the result, if the judgment had been in his favor. We are now united in the opinion that the finding of the court is not wanting in support from the evidence, and that the case is not one which warrants us in disturbing the judgment.

Affirmed.