Case ID: ala_108/html/0677-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Haralson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Beck & Pauli Lithograph Co. v. Houppert & Worcester.
    
      Action on Contract for Sale of Goods.
    
    
      1. Trial by Court without jury; revision on appeal. — Where a case is tried by the presiding judge without the intervention of a jury, the judgment rendered by him will not be disturbed on appeal, unless it is plainiy erroneous.
    2. Fraud; estoppel from setting up by reason of basing conduct upon other grounds. — Although where a party gives a reason for his conduct and decision touching anything involved in a controversy, he cannot after litigation is begun, change his ground, and put his conduct upon another and different consideration, this principle has no application to estop a party from pleading a fraud which had been practiced upon him, of which he remained ignorant, when he .set up another and different excuse for repudiating a contract.
    Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court.
    Tried before Hon. Jas. J. Banes.
    Mountjoy & Tomlinson, and Tarrant & Kroushage for appellants.
    R. H. Pearson, contra.
    
   There was judgment for the defendant, from which plaintiff appealed. Judgment affirmed.

Opinion by

Haralson, J.