ABRAMS v. ASTOR

No. 20987.

170 F.2d 544 (1948)

ABRAMS v. ASTOR et al.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

November 9, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Jacobus, of New York City, for appellant.

David Romanoff, and Bernard R. Selkowe, both of New York City, for appellees.

Before L. HAND, Chief Judge, and SWAN and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


CHASE, Circuit Judge.

On an appeal like this, where the issue of breach of contract must be resolved largely on the oral testimony of witnesses heard by a referee whose findings were accepted by the district judge, there must be an absence of any supporting testimony or something inherently improbable in the testimony relied on to support the findings before we can say that they are "clearly erroneous." Unless we can come to that conclusion the findings are to be...

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