Doyle v. Franklin
Doyle v. Franklin
Opinion of the Court
When this cause was here upon a former occasion (40 Cal. R. 106) it was held that the complaint was in ejectment, though containing much immaterial matter which would have been stricken out upon objection, and that' the answer averring that the plaintiffs here were parties to the former action of Franklin v. Doyle, and were concluded by the judgment in that action, left a plain issue of fact to be tried. The judgment was then reversed and the cause remanded, and, a new trial having been had in the Court below, judgment was rendered for the defendants. The present appeal was taken from an order denying the plaintiffs a new trial. It is plain, that treating the complaint as an action of ejectment, the answer of the defendants need only defend the material allegations of the complaint—that is, the allegations material to constitute a sufficient complaint in ejectment—and that the other and immaterial allegations, inserted therein, whether controverted by the answer or not, go for nothing.
The important question at the second trial seems to have been whether or not the present plaintiffs were, in point of fact, defendants in the action of Franklin v. Doyle, in which Franklin, defendant here, recovered the premises in controversy. At the close of the plaintiffs’ case, the defendants moved the Court below for a nonsuit, which motion was denied. The defendants then offered in evidence the judgment roll in the case of Franklin v. Doyle, relied upon by them to defeat a recovery by the plaintiffs in this action,, The roll was admitted by the Court below, and the plaintiffs excepted to the ruling of the Court, and this, as we understand from the counsel for the plaintiffs at the argument, constitutes the only point relied upon to reverse the , order denying the motion for a new trial. It is clear, however, that the supposed error of the Court below, in admitting the roll in evidence, cannot he reviewed on this appeal, because the record before us does not set forth the roll or state its contents. It seems to have been inserted in the transcript in the first instance, but was subsequently,
It is hardly necessary to refer in this connection to the settled rule that all intendments here, consistent with the record as presented, must be taken in support of the proceedings of the Court below, and that the burden is upon the appellant to make the alleged error manifest.
Order affirmed. Bemittitur forthwith.
Mr. Justice McKinstry did not express an opinion.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- CATHERINE DOYLE and JAMES DOYLE v. EDWARD FRANKLIN
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- Syllabus
- Pleadings in Ejectment.—If a complaint in ejectment contains immaterial and irrelevant-allegations, which would be stricken out on motion, the defendant, in his answer, need not controvert them. Defense in Ejectment.— The defendant in ejectment need only defend against the material allegations in the complaint, that is, the allegations • material to constitute a complaint in ejectment. Bbview of alleged Eeboe admitting Evidence.—The alleged error of the Court below in admitting in evidence a judgment roll cannot be reviewed on appeal, unless the record contains the judgment roll, or a settled abstract of its contents. Pbesumftion that Judgment is Coebect.— All intendments, consistent with the record in the appellate Court, must be taken in support of the judgment.