Russell v. Thompson
Russell v. Thompson
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The first reason set forth in the motion to dismiss, is that it does not appear on the face of the record that the amount or value in controversy, exclusive of costs, exceed $100, and hence this court has no jurisdiction. This is an action for the recovery of specific personal property. The petition filed in the court below in this case by the plaintiff (this
The evidence in this case discloses the fact that the original controversy between these parties was for the balance claimed by said Russell to be due from said Thompson, which was probably between $30 and $40, and if this action had been brought by Russell to recover the balance which he claimed to have been due from Thompson, that would probably have been the amount in controversy between them; but lie did not bring such an action, but the action that was brought by Thompson against Russell was for the recovery of the possession of a crib of corn that was valued at $195.50 by the jury, and for the sum of $50, as damages for its detention. The units or bushels of corn are in the plaintiff’s (this defendant in error) petition enumerated at 325, and he claims that each
The second contention of said motion to dismiss is that there is no case-made or transcript of the proceedings filed with the petition in error. There has evidently been no attempt at having a transcript of the proceedings of the court below filed with the petition in error in this case, but attached to the petition in error herein are some papers which were filed in the district court of Chase county, Kansas, on April 11, 1891. The question for us to decide is, whether said papers attached to this petition in error are a legal case-made. They consist simply of one page of index, 89 pages of evidence, instructions of the court, petition, answer, journal entry, and motion for a new trial. After the instructions of the court is the certificate of a stenographer pro tern, “that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of my shorthand notes taken at the trial of said cause,” and upon the motion for a new trial is a certificate of the clerk of the district court that ‘ ‘ the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of all the pleadings in the above- ' entitled cause,” but without saying what cause, unless it should refer back to the title at the commencement of the motion for a new trial. This is the exact condition of what purported to be a case-made, which
Following the decisions laid down in 14 Kas. 377, 37 id. 540, 43 id. 195, and many other Kansas decisions, we must huid that this is not a case-made. Nor can the defect he remedied by the certificate of the judge. And it would seem proper to say that this should not be so in this case, for the reason that the only statement there is in the paper is that it contains a full, correct and true copy and statement of the pleadings, evidence, stipulations, findings of the court, and the decisions thereon ; and all exceptions by either party thereto, and all proceedings subsequent to the judgment of the court, was made by said judge after it had been served upon the attorneys of this defendant in error ; and while, when it was served upon them, they say they have no amendments to suggest, and that they will waive service of notice of settlement, it certainly must he field that they accepted service of the papers presented to them, and that they stated tfiat they have no amendments to suggest to whatever paper was handed to them, and not to what might be stated afterward, and tfiat they waive notice of settlement of such a case-made as was presented to them,'and not to some further statement which tfie judge may make in the case. It might have been, if the papers presented to them had stated tfiat they contained a full, correct and true copy and statement of the pleadings and evidence, stipulations, findings of the court, and the decisions thereon, and all ex-
Paragraph 4647 of the General Statutes of 1889 reads as follows :
‘ ‘ That in all actions hereinafter instituted by petition in error in the supreme court the plaintiff in error shall attach to and file with the petition in error the original case-made filed in the court below j or a certified transcript of the record of said court.”
In this case there is no original case-made filed in the court below, and no original case-made filed with this petition in error, nor was there a certified copy of the transcript of the record of said court filed with this petition in error.
For these- reasons the motion to dismiss will be sustained.
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