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71 Me. 17

Ames v. Vose

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 30, 1879

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1879-07-30

ON exceptions and motion to set aside the verdict. Assumpsit for hauling and driving 899,252 feet spruce and pine logs, winter of 1875, at $4.50, $4046.63. Plea, general issue, and a,n account in set off amounting to $3026.69.

Decided 1879-07-30

WaltoN, J.

¶1Assumpsit to recover compensation for hauling and driving logs.' The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs for $1140.97. The defendants claim a new trial, first, for misdirection of the presiding judge, secondly, upon the ground that the verdict is against evidence, and, thirdly, for newly discovered evidence. The misdirection complained of was a statement of the familiar and well settled rule of law that, when the parties have agreed upon a surveyor to scale logs, they will, in the absence of fraud or mathematical mistake, be bound by his scale. The ruling was correct. The court is of opinion that the verdict is not against evidence; certainly not so clearly against evidence as to justify setting it aside. The newly discovered evidence is the statement of a teamster that he counted the logs daily, and that the whole number was 7206. The scaler made them 7291 — eighty-five logs more than the teamster. No reason is perceived why this evidence, by the use of due diligence, might not have been discovered before the trial as well as after.

¶2Exceptions and motions oveiTuled.

¶3Judgment on the verdict.

AppletoN, C. J., Barrows, DaNforth, Peters and Libbey, JJ., concurred.
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