Kramer v. Winslow
Kramer v. Winslow
Opinion of the Court
The first and second specifications do not conform to the rules of court, and for this reason will not be considered. The third, fourth, and fifth specifications allege errors in the general charge of the court. A careful examination of the charge as a whole fails to disclose error in the portions complained of.
We think the qualification of the plaintiff’s first point was proper. See sixth specification. The point as put was affirmed, but the court further instructed the jury that if in addition to theefacts stated in the point the jury find the further fact, that the interest or profit claimed by Winslow was acquired by him after making known all material facts.to, and by the consent of Kramer prior to said sale, they should disregard the point. While this is not the precise language, it is the legal effect of the instruction. We cannot see error in this.
The seventh specification alleges error in the general charge as a whole; that it tended to and did mislead the jury, in that the court submitted to the jury facts of which there was no evidence, and submitted questions for the consideration of the jury that were admitted by the defendant himself on the witness stand.
We have already said that we failed to find error in the general charge as a whole. An examination of the testimony does not show that the learned judge submitted to the jury facts of which there was no evidence, and we are unable to see that the submission of facts admitted by the defendant did the latter any harm, if they were so submitted.
The eighth specification is involved in the seventh and does not require discussion.
Judgment affirmed.
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- Practice — Supreme Court — Assignment of error to admission oj evidence. An assignment of error to the admission of evidence, which does not set forth the evidence admitted under the objection, is improper, and will not be_ considered by the Supreme Court. Principal and agent — Purchase money of real estate. In an action by a principal to recover a balance of purchase money claimed to have been retained by the agent in the sale of the principal’s real estate, where plaintiff asks the court to charge that defendant could not make any profit out of the sale, it is not improper to affirm the point with the qualification that if the jury should find the further fact, that the interest or profit claimed by defendant was acquired by him after making known all material facts to, and by the consent of, plaintiff, prior to the sale, they should disregard the point.