Case ID: mich_130/html/0468-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Grant, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SCHEURMANN v. STYNINGER.
    Chancery Case — Question of Fact — Finding of Circuit Judge.
    In this case the question is one purely of fact, upon conflicting evidence; and the finding of the circuit judge, who was in a better position to determine the credibility of the witnesses, is affirmed.
    Appeal from Bay; Shepard, J.
    Submitted April 9, 1902.
    (Docket No. 35.)
    Decided May 8, 1902.
    Bill by Frances Scheurmann and the Jennison Hardr ware Company against John A. Styninger and Hattie Styninger to reform a deed. From a decree for complainants, defendants appeal.
    Affirmed.
    
      Loranger & Flynn, for complainants.
    
      Pierce & Kinnane, for defendants.
   Grant, J.

The question is one entirely of fact, with the testimony in sharp conflict. We think the learned circuit judge reached the correct conclusion. The result depended upon the credibility to be given to the witnesses. In such case the circuit judge is in a better position to determine the truth than are those who have not the opportunity to see them.

The decree is affirmed.

Hooker, C. J., Moore and Montgomery, JJ., concurred. Long, J., did not sit.