General and special findings

Where issues of fact in a case are submitted to the court by consent of parties to be tried without a jury, the "finding" is the decision of the court as to the disputed facts, and it may be either general or special, the former being a general statement that the facts are in favor of such a party or entitle him to judgment, the latter being a specific setting forth of the ultimate facte established by the evidence and which are determinative of the judgment which must be given. See Rhodes v. United States Nat. Bank, 66 Fed. 514, 13 C. C. A. 612, 34 It. R. A. 742; Searcy County v. Thompson. 66 Fed. 94, 13 C. C. A. 349; Humphreys v. Third Nat. Bank, 75 Fed. 856, 21 C. C. A. 538.

Defined under Finding in Black's Law Dictionary.