Harlan v. Gunderson
Harlan v. Gunderson
Opinion of the Court
The question presented to the court by proceedings in error at this hearing is whether or not the action of the court below in entering .judgment for plaintiff upon the cross-petition of Walter S. Harlan, assignee of the MeSherry Manufacturing Company, should be sustained.
In the opinion of the court the admission of this record by the court below, in the form presented, was. error. Under Section 11499, General Code, this evidence so offered would have been properly admissible if the question of law there decided was the matter to be-proved, but it was not proper evidence to show matters of fact involved in the cause there decided.
The question raised by the cross-petition was whether under the Gunderson contract the cross-petitioner was entitled to recover for expenses incurred in litigating with reference to the Gunderson patents. The burden was upon the cross-petitioner to sustain his account for expenses as set out in his cross-petition by proper proof. A careful examination of the record discloses that by the testimony of Mr. Fetzer, who had been the general manager of the company, it was shown that certain moneys had been expended in matters connected with litigation of patents for the model planter and for the automatic planter, but we find no proof that these expenses were incurred with inference to the features of either of the Gunderson patents; and, indeed, Mr. Fetzer states that the planters then being, manufactured were not based upon said patents.
It will appear that the cross-petitioner failed in his proof to show that the expenses sought to be recovered were thus provided for by its contract with Gunderson, and therefore the admission of the record in the Federal Reporter offered by plaintiff can not be deemed as prejudicial.
"We fail to find any prejudicial error within the terms of Section 11364, General Code, and judgment below is therefore affirmed. - -
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