Reep v. Wagner
Reep v. Wagner
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The trial judge in the court below in his charge to the jury said: “ If it is true that she (the plaintiff) had given up possession, that is, if she had surrendered her rights that she had under her husband, turned her back on it and gone to Butler, with the intention of living there permanently, then she cannot recover and would not be ousted, and she can have no claim to the land whatever. How is that ? ” The jury having found for the plaintiff, it necessarily follows that she had not abandoned the property and the main fact upon which the appellants’ question involved is based must be eliminated.
There is no evidence that the plaintiff was a tenant at will or by sufferance. On the contrary, it clearly appears that she was in possession claiming under her husband who was a co-tenant with the defendant (Reep), and that she was there also by authority of other cotenants. There is absolutely nothing of fact, therefore, upon which to base the so-called questions involved.
The remarks of the trial judge in regard to the weather upon Decoration Day, which were in the main an appeal to the recollection of the jurors, were not strictly regular, but they did the defendants no harm.
The answers to the defendants’ points were substantially correct, their rights were fully guarded in the general charge, the pertinent facts were properly submitted to the jury for their finding, and with the moderate verdict, which was rendered, there is no reason to interfere.
Judgment affirmed.
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