Hermon v. Silver
Hermon v. Silver
Opinion of the Court
This is an action by the plaintiff, as assignee, to recover of the defendant the value of certain goods, wares, and merchandise sold to the defendant by the plaintiff’s assignors. The case was tried by a jury which rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of $522, and from- the judgment entered thereon defendant has appealed.
It is contended on the part of the respondent that there is nothing before the court for review except the judgment roll, as there is no specification of the particular errors relied on,, annexed to or made a part of the bill of exceptions. The record discloses that on the 28th day of July, 1900, the defendant served a notice of intention to move for a new trial, and that said motion would be based on the minutes of the court, and upon a bill of exceptions on the following grounds : “ (1) Errors of law occurring at the trial;
The notice of intention annexed to and made a part of the bill of exceptions does particularly specify the court’s alleged error in refusing the instruction requested on the part of the defendant marked “Refused.” The alleged error was properly before the trial court, and will be reviewed by this court. That instruction reads as follows: “That the court instruct the jury that in arriving at a verdict in this case, that the measure of damages in this case is the actual value of the goods if they had been as warranted, and what they were when delivered, to a person in the line of a retail dealer, and making it a business to sell shoes to the general public for a business.” This instruction does not state the rule of damages in such a case correctly. Section 4593, Comp. Laws, lays down the rule of damages in such an action as follows: “The det
No error appearing in the judgment roll, the judgment of the court below and order denying a new trial are affirmed.
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- 1. Comp. Laws, § 5090, subd. 3, requiring that, when a motion for a new trial is made on a bill of exceptions or statement, appellant shall, if the notice of intention designates as the ground of motion insufficiency of the evidence or errors of law, specify the particulars in which the evidence is insufficient, and the particular errors of law; and subdivision 4, requiring that, when the motion is to be made on the minutes of the court, the notice of intention shall specify the particulars in which the evidence is insufficient, or the particular errors of law — are mandatory, and, where not complied with, neither the trial court nor the supreme court can review the evidence, or the errors of law not so particularly specified. 2. Comp. Laws, § 4593, provides that “the detriment caused by the breach of warranty of the quality of personal property is deemed to be the excess, if any, of the value which the property would have had at the time to which the warranty referred, if it. had been complied with, over its actual value at that time.” In an action for the purchase price of shoes, defendant set up a breach of warranty as a defense, and requested an instruction that “the measure of damages is the actual value of the goods if they had been as warranted, and what they were when delivered to a person in the line of a retail dealer, and making it his business to sell shoes to the general public for a business.” Held, that the requested instruction did not state the rule of damages correctly, and was therefore properly refused; an instruction according with the statute being given instead.