Ferguson's Adm'r v. Kouns
Ferguson's Adm'r v. Kouns
10 Ky. Op. 761; 1 Ky. L. Rptr. 338; 1880 Ky. LEXIS 371
Ferguson's Adm'r v. Kouns
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The following instruction should not have been given:
“If the jury believe from the evidence that after rendering of the services charged in the first two items of the account Dr. Ferguson and defendant had a settlement, and that upon such settlement Ferguson fell in debt to defendant, then the presumption of the law is that these items were embraced in such settlement.”
From the fact of a settlement the jury might have inferred that the items mentioned were embraced in the account, but the presumption that they were so embraced is by no means conclusive. Instead
Judgment reversed and cause remanded.
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