Case ID: sc_14/html/0630-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McIyer, A. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 997.
    Morgan v. Scruggs.
    November Term, 1880.
    March 15th, 1881.
    
      A. Blythe, for appellant.
    
      Geo. Westmoreland, contra.
   Action at common law; complaint dismissed by the Circuit judge,, because it appeared, to his satisfaction, “ that the plaintiff herein is not the real owner of the notes sued on.” The case was not tried by a jury, but by consent was referred to the master to hear and determine. The master set forth the facts as to the ownership, and as a conclusion of law- found that plaintiff was the real owner. On appeal — Held, that the judgment of the Circuit Court was a finding of fact which could not be reviewed here; and that under the terms of the .order, this court could not conjecture that it was based upon a proposition of law, and enter upon an inquiry as to the correctness of such legal proposition. Appeal dismissed. Opinion by

McIyer, A. J.,