Evans v. Philadelphia Bourse

Citations

• 215 Pa. 652
• 64 A. 463
• 1906 Pa. LEXIS 865

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Architect—Drawings—Evidence.</p> <p>Jn an action by an architect to recover his feas, where there is evidence from which it may be inferred that the parties treated the drawings furnished by the plaintiff as those stipulated for by the contract, the case is for the jury, and a verdict and judgment for plaintiff will be sustained.</p> <p>Trial — Charge—Preponderance of evidence — Preponderance in the number of witnesses.</p> <p>Where the court in its charge uses the expression “preponderance of evidence,” in the sense of preponderance in the number of witnesses, and this is obvious from the context, so that the jury could not have been misled, a judgment on the verdict will not be reversed.</p>