Cotton Seed Products Co. v. Bondurant
Cotton Seed Products Co. v. Bondurant
Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the Court by
Affirming.
Appellee instituted this’ action against appellant for the price of a car load of cotton seed.
It is the contention of the appellee that appellant’s agent on or about the 23rd of January, 1913, entered into a contract with him by which it bought from him five car loads of cotton seed at an agreed price, after an inspection of the seed, the appellant’s agent at the time knowing that a part of the seed, about one car load, was not of as good quality as the balance of the seed.
On this appeal only two reasons are given for reversal: (1) because the court erred in giving instruction No. 2 to the jury, based upon the allegations of the counterclaim, and (2) because the verdict of the jury is flagrantly against the weight of the evidence.
A transcript of the evidence, together with the rulings of the court upon the admission and rejection of testimony, transcribed by the official stenographer and approved by the court, is filed in the record as a bill of exceptions; but in this bill of exceptions the instructions are not embraced.
What purports to be the instructions given by the court are copied in the record, and at the top of the page where they begin is an annotation in brackets, evidently made by the clerk, which says, “Order made May 7th, 1914, continued, ’ ’ there being no styling- of the case and nothing further to indicate that they were embraced or referred to in any order of the court. The only order of the court made on May 7th, 1914, which we have found, is one made prior to the trial, which was held on that day, reciting the fact that the plaintiff had filed his reply, and that is copied in the record several pages in advance of. the place where the supposed instructions are copied.
With the record in this condition we are unable to see that there was any order of the court referring to or identifying the instructions which the clerk has copied in the record. And there being no identification of them, either by bill of exceptions or order, they cannot be considered. Weddington v. White, 148 Ky., 671; Madden v. Meehan, 151 Ky., 220; Civil Code, section 219 and notes.
The jury were the judges of the weight to be given to the -evidence, and this court will not set aside its verdict where there is evidence to base it upon, even though the preponderance of the evidence may have been on the other side.
Judgment affirmed.
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