Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago R. W. Co. v. Crane
Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago R. W. Co. v. Crane
Opinion of the Court
The appellees, as plaintiff's, sued the appellant, as defendant, before a justice of the peace of Laporte county, Indiana, to recover damages for an alleged breach, by. the appellant, of a. contract of affreightment.
The written undertaking of the appellant, a copy'of which was filed with and made part of the complaint, was a receipt, in these words and figures:
“Received of the Penna. R. R. Co., lessee of the Pittsburgh, Port "Wayne and Chicago Railroad, in good order, the packages of merchandise charged in column of articles opposite our names. Pittsburgh Way-bill Ho. 5,280, dated August 29th, 1872. P. for car 444, L. & B. E. Crane, 5 packages iron, 1,141 lbs., Laporte, Indiana.
(Signed) “ J. C. Jilson,
“Ag’t I., P. & C. R’w’y.”
The second paragraph of the complaint was identical with the first paragraph, except that it contained no reference or allusion whatever to the receipt or any written undertaking.
There was a trial by the justice, and judgment for the appellees, from which the cause was duly appealed to the court below.
In the latter court, there was a trial by jury, and a verdict was returned for the appellees for two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents, of which appellees entered a remittitur of seventy-eight dollars and twenty cents, leaving a balance of one hundred and fifty dollars, of said jury’s verdict.
Upon written causes then filed, the appellant moved the court below for a new trial, which motion was overruled, and the appellant excepted. And judgment was rendered by the court below, upon the verdict, for one hundred and fifty dollars and costs, from which this appeal is now here prosecuted.
In this court, the only alleged error, assigned by appellant, is, that the court below erred in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial. Several causes for a new trial were specifically assigned, in appellant’s motion for that purpose. But the only question discussed by appellant’s attorney, in his argument of this cause, is a question as to the weight of the evidence. However weak some of the evidence may have been, and although we, as triers of the facts, might possibly have reached a very different
In accordance with the well established practice of this court, in civil causes, we consider all questions, made in the record, to be waived by the appellant, if he fails to notice or discuss them, in his argument of the cause. We find no error, in the record.
The judgment of the court below is affirmed, at appellant’s costs.
Petition for a rehearing overruled at the May Term, 1877.
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