Wirt v. Kutz
Wirt v. Kutz
Opinion of the Court
OPINION’OF THE COURT.
This tras an action of replevin, tried before a jury and resulted in a verdict and judgment thereon against the appellants.
1. Appellants assign error in that the verdict is contrary to the evidence and not sustained by it.
No evidence of that market price was introduced and it would be rather difficult to show that the property involved in the action had any use as that term is generally understood. Cobbey on Replevin, sec. 888.
2. Counsel for appellants seriously urges for our consideration a variance which he says exists between the verdict and the judgment.
Our attention is called to the record, where it appears by the verdict that 5.20 pounds of wool were found to have been taken by plaintiffs from the sheep during the time they were replevined.
The judgment is rendered on the basis of five hundred and twenty pounds.
The clerk’s minutes, in which the verdict is placed of permanent record, contains the words: “Wool five hundred -and twentjr pounds.” The evidence was sufficient to sustain a finding that plaintiffs did shear five hundred and twenty pounds of wool from the sheep.'
3. This action was brought by “Emmett Wirt, Eugenio Gomez and Eelix Garcia, a copartnership doing business under the firm name -and style of AVirt, Gomez and Company.”
The appellants allege error because a judgment was rendered against them as a copartnership instead of against them individually.
' Eor .the reason that it appears that the appellee in his answer alleged the wrongful taking by the appellants of wool, and the evidence being sufficient to sustain.- the finding by the jury that appellants had taken five hundred and twenty pounds of wool of the value of ten cents per pound, from the sheep during the time they were replevined, the judgment of the lower court will be affirmed upon the appellee filing a remittitur of $52.00, within 15 days from this date. Otherwise the judgment, will be reverséd.
Reference
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- EMMET WIRT, EUGENIO GOMEZ and FELIX GARCIA, a Copartnership Doing Business Under the Firm Name and Style of Wirt, Gomez & Company v. GEORGE W. KUTZ & COMPANY
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- ■SYLLABUS (BY THE COURT.) 1. This court will not on appeal disturb the verdiqt of a jury when supported by any 'substantial evidence. Candelaria v. Miera, 13 N. M. 361. 2. In this case the jury gave as incident to the recovery by defendant of certain sheep “damages in double the amount of the value of the wool taken from the sheep replevined during their detention, Wool 620 pounds, 10 cents per pound,” held that such damages are not recoverable under sub-section 239, chapter 107, Laws of 1907, which allows double damages for the use of the property from the time of delivery. 3. Error alleged in variance between verdict and judgment; the record in this case examined and held that the judgment was correct. 4. Where an action is brought by certain persons described as a “copartnership doing business under the firm name and style of, etc.,” and judgment is rendered against the copartnership and not against the individuals composing it; held that this court .will supply the omission of the individual names by ordering them inserted in the judgment. Sub-sec. 94, sec. 2685, C. L. 1897.