Young v. Rock

Citations

• 48 Ill. 42

Syllabus

<p>1. New trial—verdict agaimt the evidence. Where two witnesses testified that they were present at a conversation between the parties when defendant admitted that he owed plaintiffs a certain sum, for grading a portion of a railroad, and defendants testified to the amount of the grading, and the sum it came to upon estimates made,and testified to paj-meni to a larger extent than the jury allowed, and by their verdict allowed a larger sum to plaintiffs than could have been found had they taken the evidence of defendants’ witnesses as true: Sdd, that there was such a conflict of evidence that the verdict will not be disturbed, as it was the province of the jury to give credit to such witnesses as they regarded worthy of belief.</p>