137 Wis. 120 | Wis. | 1908
The absence of exception to any except the finding of reasonable value renders findings conclusive as to all other facts to which they relate, and thus, it is established that the plaintiff sold and delivered and the defendant purchased this cream separator, that such sale was consummated on or about October 14th, and, as matter of course, the price was then fixed, not by express agreement of the parties, but by implication of law, at the reasonable value of the property. The only question, therefore, on this appeal is whether the finding that such value was then $100 is supported by any evidence, for there is none at all to the contrary.
The court seems to have found support for its conclusion in the fact, testified to orally, that plaintiff charged the separator upon his books of account at that sum. Eut the conditions under which books of account or entries therein are permitted to have evidentiary effect by statute (sec. 4186, Stats. 1898) were not all proved. There is entire absence of any evidence “that such entires are just, to the best of his [plaintiff’s] knowledge and belief.” Without such proof the ■entries in the books were inadmissible. Kelley v. Crawford, 112 Wis. 368, 371, 88 N. W. 296; Brown v. Warner, 116 Wis. 358, 93 N. W. 17.
But the trial court further found evidence of value in the acts of the parties, in that plaintiff on two occasions,
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.