Haseltine v. Gilliland
Haseltine v. Gilliland
Opinion of the Court
The defendants in error have moved to dismiss this case, and object to its consideration on the ground that the record attached to the petition in error as a case-made was erroneously settled and signed, and should not be held to be a legal case-made. The decision of the court complained of was made October 9, 1891. The plaintiff in error was given 90 days in which to make and serve a case for the supreme court; the case-made was served on counsel for the defendants in error on December 4, 1891, and settled and signed January 4, 1892. On the hearing of the motion to dismiss, counsel for the plaintiff in error filed his affidavit showing that after the case-made was served upon the counsel for the defendants in error and after it had been examined by them it was returned to counsel for plaintiff in error, with the statement that it was correct, that they had no suggestion of amendment to make, and that they -were satisfied with it as served ; and that, relying upon such statement, the case was settled and signed before the time had expired for suggestions of amendment. No suggestions of amendment were at any time made, nor is there now any objection to the correctness of the case-made. This showing on behalf of the plaintiff in error is not disputed, and should be deemed a waiver of any irregularity in the time of settling the case. Matters touching the jurisdiction of the trial judge may be shown by extrinsic, evidence, the record itself failing to show necessary jurisdictional facts. (Jones v. Kellogg, 51 Kan. 263; Roser v. National Bank, 56 id. 129.)
The questions in this case arose in an action commenced March 31, 1887, in the district court of Dick
“that the property sold is now, and has been since long before the rendition of the judgment in said cause, the homestead of said defendants, and that at. the time of the rendition -of said judgment the title to said premises was in the United States government, and that long after the rendition of said judgment said defendants made final proof under the homestead law of the United States and obtained title thereto. ’ ’
In support of this motion, evidence was introduced, over the objection of the plaintiff, the motion sustained, and the sale set aside. The objection to this motion and to the evidence offered in its support, we think, was well taken. The merits of the motion involved the validity of the mortgage. That was an issue presented by the petition filed in the case, and was confessed in plaintiff’s favor by defendants’ default. The judgment declaring the validity of the mortgage and adjudging the debt secured thereby to be a lien upon the premises had been in force and undisputed for nearly four years. The defendants had ample opportunity to defend in the action by pleading therein the .several matters set up in this
It is suggested that the record fails to show that this court has jurisdiction to review this case. We are of opinion that it sufficiently appears that the amount involved exceeds $100 and does not exceed $2,000, and this brings the case within the jurisdiction of this court. As the motion to set the sale aside was made upon only the one ground, it should have been over
The order of the court is reversed, and the case remanded for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.
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