United States Film Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
United States Film Co. v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
Opinion of the Court
In an action brought by this plaintiff against one J. Arthur Nelson, the subject of which was the right to the possession of a certain moving-picture film entitled ‘1 Slim and the Mummy, ’ ’ valued at one thousand dollars, the court rendered a judgment requiring Nelson, defendant in said action, to deliver the same to plaintiff. Defendant appealed from the judgment and, for the purpose of staying execution thereof, procured defendant herein to execute an undertaking in the sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned as required by section 943 of the Code of Civil Procedure, that appellant should obey any order of the appellate court made on said appeal. The judgment was affirmed and the remittitur filed with the clerk of the lower court on March 28, 1916, notice of which fact was, on April 7, 1916, duly given to defendant’s attorney of record. No delivery, however, of the film was made, and on May 4, 1916, plaintiff demanded of defendant herein payment of the sum of one thousand dollars, found by the court to be the value thereof and which sum defendant by said undertaking agreed to pay in the event of Nelson’s failure to deliver the film. In the absence of such delivery and payment of said sum so demanded not being made, plaintiff, on May 5, 1916, brought this action to recover upon the undertaking, and as a result of the trial thereof judgment was rendered in favor of plaintiff, from which defendant has appealed upon the judgment-roll alone.
The chief error complained of is that the court erred in permitting plaintiff during the trial to file an amended *229 complaint, over the objection of defendant that the undertaking declared on in the original complaint was a different undertaking from that set forth in the amended complaint, and, therefore, the last complaint stated a new and different cause of action from that involved in the original complaint. In other words, that the cause of action set forth in the amended complaint was a new and distinct cause of action from that contained in the original complaint, a course of procedure which, as held in Bowman v. Wohlke, 166 Cal. 128, [Ann. Cas. 1915B, 1011, 135 Pac. 37], is not permissible.
There is no merit in appellant’s contention that plaintiff in its action should have sued for a delivery of the personal property, rather than for the amount specified in the undertaking.
The judgment is affirmed.
Conrey, P. J., and James, J., concurred.
Reference
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- UNITED STATES FILM COMPANY (A Corporation), Respondent, v. UNITED STATES FIDELITY AND GUARANTY COMPANY (A Corporation), Appellant
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