Poe v. Stockton
Poe v. Stockton
Opinion of the Court
This is the second appearance of this cause on our docket. It will be found reported in 39 Mo. App. 550. It was retried, and the errors' then mentioned as sufficiently substantial to justify a reversal of plaintiff’s judgment have been avoided. The second trial has resulted again in plaintiff’s favor and defendant appeals.
As to the matters of law presented by appellants, arising on objections to testimony and the court’s actions on the instructions, we have given the points mado due consideration. They are too numerous to set out here in detail, and we content ourselves with saying that we have found nothing, which, in our opinion, would justify us in interfering with the judgment. There is doubtless among the instructions refused for plaintiff some correct statements, abstractly of the law. But when those given at the instance of the respective parties are considered together, it is our opinion they disclose that the case was fully and fairly presented to the jury, under the respective theories, for determination. As to the result of that determination, especially since it is abundantly supported by the testimony, we have, as before stated, no responsibility; nor have we the right to interfere. . The criticisms made of the instructions for plaintiff are not well founded. The cause appears to us to have been fairly tried, and we, therefore, affirm the judgment.
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