Beachy v. Ryan
Beachy v. Ryan
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
: In 1889 Charles A. Malm .was en-
gaged in business as a druggist in the city of Newton, Harvey county, Kansas, and, being embarrassed financially and unable to pay his creditors when their bills became due, on the 17th day of June, 1889, he made a general assignment of his property to one T. C. Brewer, for the benefit of his creditors. Brewer took possession of the assigned property under the deed of assignment, and thereafter James Ryan and Meyer Bros, commenced suits against Malm in the district court of Harvey county, and obtained writs of attachment against the property of Malm, and the sheriff of said .county seized ■ the assigned property under the attachments, and thereupon Brewer commenced suit in replevin and the goods were taken under the order of replevin, a,nd Meyer Bros, and Ryan gave a redelivery bond therefor. Afterward Brewer resigned as assignee and one C. R. McLain was by the court appointed assignee. The replevin case was tried in the court, and McLa'in recovered judgment as such assignee
Parris excepted to the order and judgment! of the court in overruling and denying his motion, and made and filed a case in this court. On the 7th day of June, 1895, after filing the case in this court, Parris died, and C. M. Beachy was appointed assignee in lus place, by the district court of-Harvey county 0 M, Beachy has been substituted in this court for Parris, as plaintiff in error
The defendant m error now moves the court to dismiss the petition m error for the reason that one proceedings in error were not commenced m this court within one year iter the final judgment. In December, 1890, judgment was rendered m favor of. Charles R. McLain, assignee, who was plaintiff at that time, against the defendants in error; in December, 1891, McLain resigned as assignee; Parris was appointed and qualified as his successor in December, 1891; in June, 1893, Parris moved to be substituted as plaintiff in the judgment m the replevin suit, and an order denying the motion to substitute was ¿made December, IS, 3 S93 On December 21, 1893, Parris filed a motion for new trial of his application to be substituted ; on April 7, 1894, the motion of Parris for a new trial
Section 556 of the code of civil procedure reads:
“No proceeding for reversing, vacating or modifying judgments or final orders shall be commenced unless within oiie year after the rendition of the judgment or making of the final order complained of.”
The final order complained of was not made until dhe 7th day of April, 1894. The motion for a new trial on tlxe application for substitution was overruled, and the petitioxx, being filed April 6, 1894, is within oxxe year after the making of the final order complained of. There is no complaint of the judgment in the replevin suit. The error complained of is in the overruling of the application to be substituted as plaixxtiff ixx the judgment as successor to the former assignee, axxd the order was not final until the motion for a íxew trial was overi’uled. The overruling of the xxlotion for new trial was the final order in that case in the district court, and the case was made, settled and signed within the time allowed by the court, axxd the case made, with the petition in error attached, was filed ixx this court within one year after overruling the motion. In the case of Bates v. Byman, 35 Kan. 634, it was held that
“where a'petxtioxx in error is filed in the supreme coxxrt within one year after the making axx order overruling a motion for a ixew trial, the proceeding is within time for a review of all the rulings of the court made duriixg the trial, axid excepted to at the time, which are referred to ixx such motion.”
The motioxx to dismiss the petition in error for this reason must be overruled.
" Thereupon judgment was rendered upon such verdict and special findings in favor of the said Charles R. McLain, as assignee of said Charles A. Malm, against the defendant James Ryan, for the return of certain property, and, in case a return could not be had, for the value thereof.”
There is nothing in the record to,' show what the property was or its value — nothing by which this court can determine either the property or its value.
Chapter 96, page 151, Laws of 1895, creating the courts of appeals of this state and defining their jurisdiction, limits the jurisdiction in civil actions to cases where the amount or value m controversy does not exceed $2,000, exclusive of interest and costs.
Section 542a, of the code of civil procedure provides :
"No appeal or proceeding in error shall be had or taken to the supreme court in any civil action unless the amount or value in controversy, exclusive of costs, shall exceed $100, except in cases involving the tax or revenue laws,” etc.
The record in this case not showing that the case comes within the jurisdiction of the court, the petition in error must be dismissed.
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