Case ID: ind_34/html/0162-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pettit, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Butt v. The Toledo, Wabash, and Western Railway Co.
    Supreme Court.— Weight of Evidence.—The Supreme Court will not, upon the evidence, reverse a finding, where the evidence is conflicting, and consists .entirely of the testimony of witnesses who testified in the presence of the -court below.
    APPEAL from the Miami Circuit Court.
    
      N. 0. Ross and R. P. Effinger, for appellant.
    
      W. Z.. Stuart, .-for .appellee,
   Pettit, C. J.

This suit was brought by the appellant against the appellee, to recover damages for killing stock on her-railroad. The issues were regularly made; trial by the court,-and .finding and judgment for the defendant Motion .for a.new trial overruled, exceptions, and appeal to this court. The -.only question before us in this record is the correctness of the finding of the court below on the evidence, all of which . is in the record. The evidence was all oral and unwritten, rand is conflicting and contradictory; and the judge who tried the case was Better able to determine its strength, weight, and the .reliability of witnesses than we are; and therefore we cannot reverse, but must affirm the judgment.

Judgment affirmed, at the costs of the appellant.