Taliaferro v. Cundiff
Taliaferro v. Cundiff
Opinion of the Court
The only assignment of error which the court find it necessary to revise is the third; that the court erred in not"
It is certainly the duty of the court to construe all written instruments used as evidence in the progress of the cause, or counted on as securing a right or furnishing a remedy.
But here it was as much a question of fact as of law for the jury to determine the meaning of the parties from the contract itself, and it was not improperly left, to the jury to determine the question of fact as witnessed by the written instrument.
"We think the jury determined it correctly, and that there is no error of which the plaintiff ean eomplain. Slice questions of law and fact will often' blend themselves, and when the jury have determined the faets correctly, and have not misconceived their, application to the law, the courts are relieved from the necessity of explaining the legal principles involved.
The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
Affirmed,
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- C. S. Taliaferro v. W. H. Cundiff
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- 1: It is the duty of the eouit to construe all written instruments usad as evidence, or counted upon as securing a right or iurnishing a remedy. 2. But in this action to recover the value of some twenty hales oi' cotton, as written instrument was maintained by the plaintiff to be a bill of sale of the cotton, while the defendant contended that it was only a collateral security' for a debt. The jury were directed by the court below to consider the instrument in connection witli the other evidence adduced, and to determine therefrom what was the intention oí the parties. Hr,!d, that the question involved was one of fact as much as of law, and that there was no impropriety in thus submitting it to tho jury. 3. Nice questions of law and fact often become blended, and whan the jury has correctly determined the facts, and has not misconceived the lnw applicable to them, there is no error to be complained of, and the judgment will not be disturbed.