Case ID: ind_67/html/0067-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Worden, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Little v. The American Button-Hole, Over-Seam Sewing Machine Company.
    Supreme Court.— Weight of Evidence. — Practice.—The Supreme Court will not disturb a finding, upon the mere weight of the evidence.
    Promissory Note. — Married, Woman. — Payment.—Law Merchant. — The taking of the note of a married woman, for her husband’s debt, can not operate as payment, of such debt, though payable at a bank in this State, so as to be governed by the law merchant.
    Erom the Huntington Circuit Court
    
      B. M. Cobb, for appellant.
    J. C. Branyan and C. W. Watkins, for appellee.
   Worden, C. J.

This was an action by the appellee, against the appellant, James M. Little, and his wife, Mary Jane Little, upon an account for a sewing machine, and upon a promissory note given for the price of the machine, payable at the Eirst Rational Bank at Huntington, Ind., and signed by Mary Jane Little only.

Mary Jane Little pleaded her coverture, in bar of the action against her, and during the progress of the cause the plaintiff dismissed the action, as against her.

The issues in the cause between the appellant and the company Avere tried by the court, Avho found for the plaintiff, and rendered judgment accordingly, over a motion for a neiv trial.

The only question in the cause is whether the finding is sustained by the evidence.

There was evidence tending to show that the machine was sold on the credit of the appellant; and, though there was some conflict in it, we can not reverse the judgment on that ground. The court below had the witnesses before it and heard their testimony, and we can by no means say that the finding was contrary to law or the evidence.

The taking of the note of a married woman, which is utterly void, can not operate, prima facie, as payment of a debt for which it was given, though payable at a bank in this State, so as to be governed by the law merchant.

■ The judgment below is affirmed, with costs and ten per cent, damages.