Rea v. Ferguson
Rea v. Ferguson
Opinion of the Court
This is a suit by plaintiff, as administrator of P. L. Hudgens, deceased, to recover balance alleged to be ■due on a promissory note of defendant. It appears from the record that defendant also had pending in the Andrew circuit court a suit against the plaintiff as administrator, to recover an account claimed to be due him from the estate of said Hudgens. The two suits, by agreement, were consolidated, and upon the trial plaintiff obtained judgment for $143; from which defendant appeals to this court. "We are asked to reverse the judgment on the ground that the verdict of the jury is against the evidence in that
As to the first point made it may be disposed of with the observation that it has been repeatedly held that where there is any evidence to support a verdict and judgment, that this court will not disturb it simply because it appears to be against the weight of evidence. Price v. Leans, 49 Mo. 396; Penn v. Lewis, 12 Mo. 161.
The objection made to the action of the court in giving the third instruction, is not well taken. The record shows that there was evidence to the effect that defendant was a son-in-law of the deceased, and that during the illness of the deceased, defendant visited and administered to him, not as a physician, but as a friend, and also that there was no charge made on his books at the time the services sued for were rendered, and that the note in question was given after said services were rendered, and that defendant, on two distinct occasions, promised to pay without setting up any claim for services. This we think was sufficient to authorize the instruction. Judgment affirmed,
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