Shear v. McAlester

The appellants here, plaintiffs below, have filed six specifications of error, all objecting to either the admissibility of certain evidence, or the charge of the court to the jury; but they have failed to preserve in their bill of exceptions or elsewhere in the transcript of the record the entire charge of the court. In fact only a brief extract from the charge, and on one proposition only, is brought to this court. The rule is well settled that, unless the entire charge of the court is preserved in the record, it will be presumed that the court below properly instructed the jury upon the law applicable to the facts. Neither counsel for appellants nor for appellee have deemed it necessary to furnish in their briefs any citation of authorities, both insisting the questions presented are so plain that argument is substantially unnecessary, and the citation of authorities wholly useless. It appears that prior to the levy of the attachment complained of, on September 12, .1893, in the case of Crowell against George Shear, there had been a judgment rendered against said George Shear at the suit of James L. Young for the possession of lands on which the property attached was located, and for $500 for rents, and costs of suit. This Young judgment was rendered on August 24, 1893, and on October 27, 1893, execution having been issued .on the Young judgment, levy was made on the identical property attached in the Crowell case On Decein-ber 21, 1893, Young, the judgment creditor, intervened the Crowell case, and, upon a showing satisfactory to court, obtained the appointment of a receiver to take ch; j of the property which had been attached in the Crc j]1 case, and levied upon under the execution in the Yi/ur judgment; and subsequently the court ordered the receb to sell the property thus impounded, and apply the j ceeds, in the first instance, to the payment and satisfac *on of the Young judgment; the court being of the opinion that *523the Young judgment, being for rents under a landlord’s lien, was prior in time and right to the attachment in the Crowell case. The proceeds of the sale of the property were absorbed in the satisfaction of the young judgment, and Crowell, the attaching creditor, received no benefit from his attachment. No evidence was given of any injury to the property between the date of the attachment and the levy of the execution. The appellants, who were the sons of George Shear, the defendant in the Crowell attachment and the Young judgment, did not see fit to assert their rights, if any they had, in the proceeding subjecting the property to the sale and satisfaction of the Young judgment, but insist that the admission of the record of the Young judgment and the order appointing the receiver was error on the trial of this cause. We cannot concur in this view, and are of the opinion that the appellants should have asserted their rights in the proceeding that resulted in the sale of their property by order of the court for the satisfaction of the Young judgment. It would be manifestly unjust to hold the marshal for conversion of property which the court took from his possession, and sold through its receiver, another officer of the court. This case was submitted to a jury under instructions which, under the condition of the record, must be presumed to have been correct, and the verdict was for the defendant, which was confirmed by the judgment of the court, and we are of the opinion that said judgment should not be disturbed, and it is therefore affirmed.