Case ID: minn_106/html/0537-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ROBERT RACINE v. MICHAEL MAHONEY.
    
    November 6, 1908.
    Nos. 15,930—(54).
    Action in the district court for Stevens county to recover $200, the unpaid balance upon the purchase price of certain land. The case was tried before Flaherty, J., and a jury which rendered a verdict in favor of plaintiff for $212.65. From an order granting defendant’s motion for a new trial, plaintiff appealed.
    Affirmed.
    
      Geo. W. Beise, for appellant.
    
      James B. Ormond, for respondent.
    
      
       Reported in 118 N. W. 64.
    
   PER CURIAM.

This action was brought in the district court of the county of Stevens to recover $200, which the plaintiff claims was due to him from the defendant for the balance of the purchase price of land sold to him by the plaintiff. The answer alleged payment in full for the land. The evidence on the trial as to the issue of payment was radically conflicting; the defendant testifying directly and explicitly that he paid to the plaintiff the $200, stating time and place of payment and circumstances under which it was made. The plaintiff testified positively that the balance had not been paid, and denied the testimony of the defendant. Verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. The trial court, on defendant’s motion, granted a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was not justified by the evidence. The plaintiff appealed from the order granting a new trial. The weight of the evidence was not palpably in favor of the verdict, and the trial court did not abuse its discretion in granting a new trial.

Order affirmed.