Case Name: Anderson versus Whipple
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1852
Citations: 34 Me. 592
Docket Number: 
Parties: Anderson versus Whipple.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 34
Pages: 592–593

Head Matter:
Anderson versus Whipple.
On Exceptions from the District Court.
After a party had referred to several pieces of documentary evidence, and to the plaintiff’s account book, and to the testimony which the plaintiff had given on the suppletory oath, and after he had detailed in extenso, what a witness, if present, would testify, this case was submitted to the District Court, “ upon the legal rights of the parties, to he decided upon the proper rules of law and testimony, the Court to draw inferences of fact as a jury might, all questions and objections being reserved to be made at the Court.”
The Judge of the District Court allowed some items of the plaintiff’s claim, and the defendant excepted.

Opinion:
Shepley, C. J.,
orally. — This case is said to have been submitted upon a statement of facts, But no facts were agreed. It was submitted to the District Court on the evidence, to be decided on the rules of law and testimony, reserving all questions of law. It is merely a submission to that Court to find what the facts were, and then to apply the law. His adjudication upon the facts was to be conclusive, not examinable here. It does not appear what he found the facts to be; consequently we cannot know what rule of law he applied. No legal question, therefore, is presented by the exceptions.
Being irregularly here, the exceptions must be dismissed, with costs for the plaintiff.