Witter v. Fisher
Witter v. Fisher
Opinion of the Court
The appellant assigns twenty-nine errors in the proceedings of the District Court from which he
The plaintiff filed his petition containing three distinct counts, and afterward filed an i: amendment to the petition.” The defendant filed his affidavit that the three counts were for but one cause of action, and thereon based a motion (under Revision, section 2934), to require the plaintiff to elect upon which count he would proceed to trial and to strike out the others. This motion was sustained by the court, and the plaintiff elected to treat the amendment as part of the first count, and to proceed to trial upon such count as amended, which the court .allowed. Upon this action of the court the defendant .assigns error. There was no error in allowing the plaintiff thus to elect. The objection is founded upon a misapprehension of the pleading, and in treating it as an •“ amended petition,” instead of what it professes and ¡purports to be, “ an amendment to the petition.”
And, from this, follows the next proposition in order, and which fully determines the' rights of this defendant, and that is, that the judgment in the action of replevin, wherein this defendant was plaintiff, and this plaintiff was, by intervention, defendant,-is conclusive upon the questions adjudicated by it. In the action of replevin, the jury found that this defendant’s interest in the certificate of deposit and treasury note was to hold the same as security for one hundred dollars due him from the payee of the certificate; and the court adjudged that he hold the same as collateral security for the debt, etc. While the judgment following the verdict does not, in terms, repeat or specify the amount of the debt, yet the whole judgment entry taken together leaves that matter very clear, almost without any shadow of a doubt. The judgment adjudicates and confirms the facts found by the verdict and the rights of the parties thereon. ■
But it is objected that the verdict and judgment go further and affect to determine more than under the statute was rightful or proper; and that to the extent of such excess, they are null and void. By our statute (Bev. § 3562), “ the judgment shall determine which party is entitled to the possession of the property and shall designate his right therein, and if such party have not the possession thereof, shall also determine the value of the right of such party. * *
Inasmuch as the judgment of the District Court upon this evidence of former adjudication must have been for plaintiff, it becomes wholly unnecessary for us to inquire whether, upon the evidence aside from it, the plaintiff would have been entitled to more than one hundred dollars for his legal services to Jones, or whether there was proper evidence excluded or improper evidence admitted, or as to any other of the questions made by appellant.
Affirmed.
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