Case ID: ind_136/html/0383-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Coffey, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 16,573.
    Wolfe v. The Evansville and Terre Haute Railroad Company.
    Filed Jan. 23, 1894.
    Supreme Court Practice. — Presumption.—Decision of Trial Gourt.— Where the court instructed the jury to return a verdict for the appellee, and the evidence is not in the record, the presumption in favor of the action of the trial court must prevail on appeal.
    From the Sullivan Circuit Court.
    
      W. C. Hultz, for appellant.
    
      J. E. Iglehart, E. Taylor, J. T. Hays and H. J. Hays, for appellee.
   Coffey, J.

At the conclusion of the evidence in this cause, the court directed the jury to return a verdict for the appellee, which was done.

The evidence is not in the record. We must presume in favor of the ruling of the circuit court, that the evidence was not sufficient to authorize a verdict for the appellant. If such was the character of the evidence, the court did not err in directing a verdict for the defendant. Dodge v. Gaylord, 53 Ind. 365; Vance v. Vance, 74 Ind. 370; Washer v. Allensville, etc., Turnpike Co., 81 Ind. 78; McClaren, Admr., v. Indianapolis, etc., R. R. Co., 83 Ind. 319; Purcell v. English, 86 Ind. 34.

Judgment affirmed.