Case Name: JAMES M. HEATHERTON v. FRED E. GRIFFITH
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1925-10-07
Citations: 3 N.J. Misc. 1012
Docket Number: 
Parties: JAMES M. HEATHERTON v. FRED E. GRIFFITH.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Miscellaneous Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 1012–1013

Head Matter:
JAMES M. HEATHERTON v. FRED E. GRIFFITH.
Decided October 7, 1925.
Before Gummere, Chief Justice, and Justices Kalisoh and Campbell.
Eor the rule, Edward F. Merrey.
Contra, Wood McKee and Spaulding Frazer.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This was an action on a promissory note given by the defendant to the plaintiff for $8,120. The defense was that it was given without consideration and merely for the accommodation of the plaintiff. The- trial resulted in a verdict in favor of the defendant, and the only contention made by counsel for the defendant on the argument of this rule is that the verdict was against the clear weight of the evidence. Our examination of the proofs in the cause leads to the con elusion that, although if we had been required to pass upon them in the first instance, we probably would have reached a different conclusion from that arrived at by the jury, we cannot say that the verdict is so clearly against the weight of the evidence as to justify us in setting it aside.
The rule to show cause will be discharged.