Roberts v. Lovitt
Roberts v. Lovitt
Opinion of the Court
On the first of June, 1892, appellee recovered judgment before a justice of the peace for work and labor, against one Milton Roberts. On the 4th of June
The appellant assigns two errors in this court, to-wit :
<£1. That the court erred in its conclusions of law on the facts found.
"2. That the court erred in overruling the motion for a new trial.”
The court found that at the date of the rendition of the judgment, said Roberts owned personal property mentioned and described in the finding of the net value of $700 above incumbrances. Appellee’s judgment, including costs, amounted to $50.79. Roberts was a householder. The court further found that in October, 1892, and up to the time of the institution of this suit, said Roberts was insolvent, and did not have property of the value of $600.
In support of his motion for a new trial, counsel for appellant insists that the evidence does not sustain the finding that Roberts was insolvent and did not have property of the value of $600, in October.
The only argument in support of the assignment that the court erred in its conclusions of law on the facts found, is that the finding fails to disclose the facts showing that Roberts, after the appeal, sold and transferred his property, and that he expended, used up and consumed the proceeds of certain sales. The gist of the averment in appellee’s complaint was that Roberts, when the judgment was rendered, owned sufficient property subject to execution to satisfy the judgment, and that when the appeal was dismissed he owned no property subject to execution. The finding supports this charge. It is true the finding does not set out what property he had sold or transferred, or what he had done with the proceeds of the sales. The important question was not, however, what he had done with his property. When it was ascertained that he owned property subject to execution sufficient to satisfy the judgment at the time the appeal was taken, the next material question under the issues was whether he owned any such property when the appeal was dismissed. All the appellee was required to do on this question was to show that when the appeal was dismissed, said Roberts owned no property subject to execution. If Roberts owned at the time the appeal was taken sufficient property subject to
So far as our attention has been called to the record, we find no error that would justify a reversal of the judgment of the court below.
Judgment affirmed.
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