| Ind. | Nov 15, 1879
The appellees, as administrators of the estate of Thomas D. Kent, brought this action against the appel
The answer to the complaint was a denial and set-off, consisting of the alleged sale and delivery, by the appellant to the deceased, of large quantities of grain and flax-seed, during the years 1870, 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1874, amounting to about $4,000 ; demanding judgment against the appellees for $3,000. The set-off was denied. Trial by jury; verdict for appellees, $715.07; judgment on the verdict; appeal.
By a motion for a new trial, the appellant has presented the question of the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict, which is the only question in the case for our consideration. For this reason we thought it unnecessary to any more particularly state the pleadings.
The evidence is too voluminous to state at length. The appellees introduced the note in evidence, and testimony tending to prove the items in the account. The appellant then introduced evidence tending to prove the sale and delivery of large quantities of grain and flaxseed to the deceased, who was a merchant during four or five years, and the prices. In rebutting, the appellees introduced evidence tending to prove that the grain and flaxseed were sold and delivered to William Kent, instead of the deceased, and that the deceased was paid for the grain as it was delivered ; that no grain or produce was purchased on credit either by William Kent or the deceased.
With this evidence before us — with opposite tendencies, more or less conflicting, gathered, except the promissory note, from the testimony of fifteen witnesses, concerning more than two hundred items, referring to almost as many separate transactions between the parties, and covering a
The judgment is affirmed, at the costs of the appellant.