Case Name: RUPLE v. WEARY
Court: Colorado Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Colorado
Decision Date: 1884-02-29
Citations: 4 Colo. L. Rep. 517
Docket Number: 
Parties: RUPLE v. WEARY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Colorado Law Reporter
Volume: 4
Pages: 517–518

Head Matter:
RUPLE v. WEARY.
(Supreme Court of Colorado,
February 29, 1884
Error to the County Court of Summit County.)
Practice in Supreme Court—Province of Jury. The Supreme Court will not consider errors not excepted to below. It is the province of the jury to determine the weight of testimony when conflicting.

Opinion:
Helm, J.
No objection was taken or exception preserved, by either party during the progress of the trial; we are, therefore, precluded from considering errors, if any were made, either in the admission or rejection of testimony, or in the giving or refusal of instructions.
But two witnesses were examined in the case, and there is no strong preponderance of proof upon the disputed points. The testimony of Weary, who was sworn on behalf of plaintiffs below, establishes their right to recover from defendants the amount of the judgment. Bergman, who testified for defendants below, contradicts Weary in some important particulars. But the cause was tried to a jury, whose province it was to pass upon the weight of testimony and credibility of witnesses; they resolved the doubts arising from these conflicts in the evidence, in favor of plaintiffs, and a disturbance of their verdict by us would be unwarranted.
F. M. Hardenbrook, for plaintiffs in error.
J. A. Hall, for defendants in error.
The judgment of the County Court must be affrmed.
Affirmed.