Keystone Iron Works Co. v. Wilkie
Keystone Iron Works Co. v. Wilkie
Opinion of the Court
This is an action in replevin, brought in the District Court of Butler County, Kansas, to recover the possession of a'steam boiler, pumps, pipes and other machinery used for the purpose of pumping water, and situated at or near Douglass, in said county.
The plaintiff below, who is the plaintiff in error in this court, claims title to the property Under and by virtue of a sheriff's deed, executed June 30, 1890, to block 5, Wilkie's Addition to the city of Douglass, in said county.
The defendant claims the right of possession as the agent of D. T. Henderson, who claims title under a
The Douglass Sugar Company purchased block 5 in Wilkie’s Addition to the town of Douglass, in Butler County, Kansas, in May, 1888, and began the erection of a sugar mill, which they completed on or about the fifteenth day of October, 1888. In June, 1888, the Sugar Company executed a mortgage to N. F. Frazier to secure the sum of $10,600, and became indebted to different persons for material furnished for the erection of said mill. In June, 1888,fit was ascertained that the well which had been dug on the premises did not furnish a sufficient quantity of water to operate the sugar mill, and the Sugar Company constructed a pumping station at the Walnut River, consisting of steam boilers and pumps, and connected this pumping station with the main plant- by means of iron pipes. The pumping station was also used to supply the city of Douglass with water.
Action was brought in the District Court of Butler County, Kansas, to foreclose one of the mechanics’ liens, and all of the lien holders, including the Merchants’ Bank, of El-Dorado, the assignee of the Frazier mortgage, were made parties defendant. This action was taken upon a change of venue to Cowley County, where the case was tried and judgment rendered against the Douglass Sugar Company. An order of sale was issued upon said judgment, and the property sold to this plaintiff, the Keystone Iron Works Company, for the sum of $10,001.
In the answers and cross-petitions in the original
The judgment upon which the order of sale issued, which is also in evidence in this case, commands the sheriff of Butler County, Kansas, “to cause to be appraised and to advertise and sell according to law, the lands and tenements in said plaintiff’s petition described, and in the several answers and cross-petitions of said defendants herein described, to -wit, block 5 in Wilkie’s Addition to the city of Douglass, Butler County, Kansas, together with all the buildings, fixtures, machinery and other appurtenances thereto belonging and thereon situated.”
The order of the court confirming the sale, which is also in evidence, directs the sheriff to execute to the purchaser a deed, conveying “ all of block 5 in Wilkie’s Addition to the city of Douglass, Butler County, Kansas, together with all the appurtenances, fixtures and machinery thereon situate.”
The granting clause in the deed, which is also in evidence, is as follows :
“All of block 5 in Wilkie’s Addition to the city of Douglass, Butler County, Kansas, together with all the buildings, fixtures, machinery and other appurtenances thereunto belonging and thereon situate, and all the estate, right, title and interest whatsoever of the Douglass Sugar Company and the defendants in the above-entitled suit.”
In the judgment upon which the sheriff’s deed is based, the court refused to declare the claims of the parties who furnished material for the construction
The defendant contends that, even if the evidence of the plaintiff tended to establish its claim, because her evidence introduced under paragraph 4267 of the General Statutes of 1889 established her . claim, the error in sustaining the demurrer is immaterial. We are cited to Goddard v. Donaha (42 Kan. 754) and Scott v. Stephens (43 id. 285) in support of the proposition that although a demurrer to evidence offered by the plaintiff is overruled when it should have been sustained, yet if the defendant’s evidence cures the defects,, the error is immaterial.- It is argued that the converse of this proposition follows from the same reasoning. We do not allow this contention. If the defendant is entitled to have a demurrer sustained, he may waive the error committed in overruling it, by introducing evidence showing that it ought to be overruled ; but where the plaintiff is entitled to have a demurrer to his evidence overruled, the error in sustaining it is not cured by the evidence of the'defendant given under paragraph 4267, supra, showing that he and not the plaintiff is entitled to the property. In such a case there is a conflict in the evidence which the plaintiff is entitled to have submitted to the jury. ,
The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.
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- 1. Demurrer to Evidence — erroneously sustained, error not cured by defendant’s evidence. Where a demurrer to the evidence of the plaintiff is improperly sustained, the error cannot be cured by the evidence which may be given by the defendant under paragraph 4267 of the General Statutes of 1889. The plaintiff is entitled to have conflicting evidence submitted to the jury. 2. Sheriee’s Deed — conveys only property described. Where the pleadings, judgment, order of confirmation and sheriff’s deed limit the description of the property conveyed by said deed to a tract of land and the buildings, machinery, appurtenances and fixtures situated thereon, the purchaser cannot claim under such sheriff’s deed the boilers, pumps, pipes and other machinery located upon the land of strangers and used in supplying water for the use of the mill on the land described, as well as for the use of a city.