Court Opinion

ID: 8262606
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-16 15:56:09.599731+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:13.916155
License: Public Domain

BOND, J.
This suit is by attachment, grounded on the non-residency of the defendant, for the amount of several items of an account upon an alleged sale of lumber. It was submitted to the court without a jury. All the declarations of law requested by the plaintiff were given. No exceptions were taken to the rulings upon the evidence. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for two items of the account, and for the defendants on the first and third items of the account. Plaintiff appealed.
*440The brief filed in this court makes no assignment of errors. It argues in a general way that the partial finding against plaintiff was contrary to a correct view of the facts introduced in evidence. The credibility of the oral evidence to support a cause of action alleged by plaintiff, upon whom rests the burden of proof, in the absence of passion, prejudice or corruption, is a matter for the triers of the facts. It is not claimed the finding of the court was biased by any of these influences, hence, it is not open to review by us. Moreover, the record shows that the defendant was in possession of a receipt executed by the plaintiff for all claims against it. While, of course, this was not conclusive, but open to explanation, yet it did, prima facie, tend to contradict the evidence adduced on plaintiff’s behalf. 'And it was the exclusive privilege of the court, sitting as a jury, to resolve all questions arising upon conflicting evidence, and, indeed, to believe or disbelieve the oral testimony of the witnesses.
It is apparent that nothing is preserved for review by the appeal and brief of the appellant in this case, except the record proper, which does not show the judgment rendered was unwarranted. The judgment is, therefore, affirmed.
All concur.