Case ID: mich_263/html/0133-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Clark, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

KELVINATOR SALES CORP. v. WHITNEY.
    Appeal and Eeroe — Weight op Evidence.
    Decision of trial judge on question of fact, in trial -without jury, is affirmed, on appeal, where it does not appear to be against weight of evidence, although testimony was contradictory.
    Appeal from Wayne; Black (Edward D.), J., presiding.
    Submitted April 5, 1933.
    (Docket No. 7, Calendar No. 36,887.)
    Decided May 16, 1933.
    Assumpsit by Kelvinator Sales Corporation, a Delaware corporation, against Prank J. Wbitney and Guy R. Loomis for the purchase price of refrigeration equipment. Judgment for plaintiff as to defendant Loomis only. Plaintiff appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      Wiley, Streeter, Smith & Ford, for plaintiff.
    
      James G. McHenry, for defendant Whitney.
   Clark, J.

Plaintiff’s assignor sold and delivered merchandise on an order signed, — “Detroit Community Mkts. (Seal) (Purchaser’s signature) By Guy R. Loomis. (Partner, or official title, if company).”

In this suit for the price, the declaration in several counts is for recovery against Whitney as the proprietor, against Loomis as the proprietor, and against both as partners, trading under the assumed name. In a trial without a jury, there was judgment against Loomis alone. Plaintiff has appealed.

The decision is in effect that Loomis was sole proprietor, and that Whitney was neither sole proprietor nor partner. Loomis testified he was sole proprietor. Whitney denied he was either proprietor or partner. An agent of a credit bureau contradicted Whitney. There was other testiinony of activities of the defendants in respect of the business. But on review of the case we cannot find the decision of the trial judge to be against the weight of the evidence. Disposing of the case upon the facts renders discussion of law unnecessary.

Affirmed.

McDonald, C. J., and Potter, Sharpe, North, Fead, Wiest, and Butzel, JJ., concurred.