Case ID: ad_22/html/0631-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Second Department, November Term, 1897.
    Clara Hunt, Respondent, v. John Wesley Webber and Charles G. Webber, as Executors, of Cornelia McDonald Deceased, Appellants.
    Judgment and order affirmed, with costs.—Appeal from a judgment entered upon the verdict of a jury, and from an order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.-
   Per Curiam:

The recovery in this case is very large, and we are impressed, after a careful reading of the testimony returned, that the services claimed to have been rendered are exaggerated in character and in value. There is no proof of the expenditure of the sum of $420 by the plaintiff for the benefit of the deceased, disclosed in the record. The amount of such expenditure in the complaint is made by the plaintiff upon information and belief. If she expended this sum it would seem to be within her personal knowledge, and, therefore, admitted of a positive allegation. However this may be, the averment is not denied in the answer, and such expenditure is not now controverted. It is not claimed that the case presents any valid exception which requires a reversal of the judgment, and it is difficult to see from the proof how the court can legally interfere either by the granting of a new trial, or reducing the amount of the recovery. If, however, we could find ground for such action, the appellants have rendered such course impossible, by failing to have inserted a statement that the case contains all the evidence. We must, therefore, conclude that evidence was given sufficient to support the judgment which has been rendered. The judgment should be affirmed, with costs. All concurred.