Case ID: ky_211/html/0390-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Clay", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Black Log Lumber Company v. Stepp.
    (Decided November 24, 1925.)
    Appeal from Martin Circuit Court.
    1. Appeal and Error — Evidence and Instructions Presumed to Authorize Verdict, where Appeal Comes Up Without Bill of Exceptions. — Where appeal comes up without bill of exceptions, it will be-presumed -that evidence and instructions authorize the verdict, and sufficiency of pleadings is only question that m-ay be reviewed.
    2. Pleading — All Ambiguities and Uncertainties in Pleadings Liberally Construed to Uphold Verdict. — After verdict, -all -ambiguities, and uncertainties in pleadings will be liberally construed to uphold verdict.
    EARLE CASSADY and J. M. COLLINS fo-r .appellant.
    JOHN W. WHEELER and W. G. WELLS for -appellee.
   Opinion op ti-ie Court by

Judge Clay

Affirming.

Henry Stepp brought this action against the Black Log Lumber Company to recover damages for breach of a contract to cut and haul timber. From a judgment in. his favor for $700.00 the defendant has. appealed.

As the case is here without a bill of exceptions, it. will be presumed that the evidence and the instructions authorized the verdict, and the sufficiency of the pleadings is the only question that may he reviewed. Tyler v. Woerner, 158 Ky. 710, 166 S. W. 178.

The petition sets out the contract, its breach by appellant, and the amount of damages claimed. While it may be somewhat indefinite and uncertain, the omissions are not such as to render it fatally defective, in view of the rule that after verdict all ambiguities and uncertainties in pleadings will he liberally construed for the purpose of upholding the verdict. Worthley’s Admr. v. Hammond, 13 Bush 510.

Judgment affirmed.