Houck v. Deitz
Houck v. Deitz
Opinion of the Court
This was an action of assumpsit commenced before a justice of the peace, and taken to the Circuit Court by appeal. The cause of action was a bill of goods
A new trial was granted upon an affidavit of the defendant, stating, in substance, that the cause was tried in his absence, late at night; that the plaintiff was made a witness in the cause, and the said plaintiff testified that the amount of said bill was due and owing to him, and denied positively that any part of said bill had ever been paid or settled; that since the trial the defendant had been informed and believed that he could prove that 28 dollars and some cents’ worth of the goods so sold and charged to the defendant, was taken back by the plaintiff, for which the defendant should have had a credit; and that he did not expect the return of said goods would have been denied by the plaintiff, and expected to be able to prove the return of said goods if a new trial was granted.
At a subsequent term, after a new trial had been granted, the cause being again called, the defendant applied for a continuance upon an affidavit stating that certain persons were material witnesses for him, and that he expected to be able to prove by one or both of them the return to the plaintiff of a part of the goods charged to the defendant in the cause of action. The Court being of opinion that the affidavit was sufficient, the plaintiff, to prevent a continuance, admitted that the matters contained in the affidavit should be taken as true; and the cause being thereupon again submitted, the plaintiff obtained a judgment for 70 dollars damages and his costs.
The plaintiff below now prosecutes this writ of error and contends that the last judgment should be set aside and the first reinstated, because the new trial was granted upon insufficient grounds.
But, as the plaintiff entered into the second trial, and admitted that a part of the goods for which the action
As the evidence given at the last trial is not in the record, it must be presumed the judgment was in accordance with it, and that the plaintiff recovered all that he was justly entitled to.
The judgment is affirmed with costs.
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