Kullmann v. Greenebaum
Kullmann v. Greenebaum
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiffs in this case seek a modification of the judgment. They ask the court to direct a modification of the judgment by the court below by ordering that court to enter judgment in accordance with the facts found by the jury, adjudging the defendants guilty of fraud, and directing process to issue against these persons according to law.
This we decline to do, for the reason that the complaint sets up no fraud by defendants of which the plaintiffs can complain.
Inasmuch as the complaint in respect of fraud is insufficient, the court did not err, though special issues were submitted to the jury in not entering such judgment as the plaintiffs now ask. The allegata and probata do not correspond.
It may be conceded that the court was bound to enter judgment on the verdict of the jury. But under the state of facts above pointed out, the court did not err in disregarding the verdict of the jury in respect to fraud.
It is unnecessary to determine any other questions made on the argument.
The proper judgment was entered.
Judgment affirmed.
Sharpstein, J., and McFarland, J., concurred.
Hearing in Bank denied.
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- Full Case Name
- SIMON KULLMANN v. JACOB GREENEBAUM
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- Syllabus
- Appeal — Modification of Judgment — Special Verdict—Pleadings.— A judgment for plaintiff will not be modified upon appeal so as to conform to a special verdict in his favor, if such special verdict is not supported by the complaint, and the proper judgment was entered in conformity to the cause of action stated in the complaint. Trover — Conversion of Shares of Stock — Disconnected Fraud — Execution against Person.—In an action for the conversion of shares of stock, where fraud is pleaded in reference to a matter of composition with defendants’ creditors, which is disconnected with the conversion of the stock, which is the subject of the action, though the jury may, under special issues submitted to them, find the defendants guilty of fraud, the court cannot properly direct process to issue against the persons of the defendants.