Smith v. Burton
Smith v. Burton
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The defendants demurred to the declaration because it did not aver that the plaintiff had transferred to J. E. Wilson and J. L. Wilson the title to his interest in the “Earmville Journal” (a newspaper owned jointly and equally by him and them), in pursuance of the sale of his interest to J. L. Wilson.
The allegation would have been superflons and wholly out of place in the declaration. There was no retention by Burton of the title to his interest in the property, and it passed immediately upon the sale to his vendee 3 Minor’s Inst., Pt. 1, 253; 21 Amer. and Eng. Eney. of Law, 482; and the oases there cited. There was nothing further to be done by Burton to transfer to J. L. Wilson the title to his interest, and to constitute J. L. Wilson and J. E. Wilson the owners of the full and complete title to the property. The title to his interest having vested by the sale in his vendee, and Burton having been compelled to pay the notes from which the defendants had bound themselves by the writing sued on to save him harmless, there was no condition precedent for him to perform before bringing suit, or the performance whereof it was necessary to aver in the declaration. The demurrer was properly overruled.
This evidence established the right of the plaintiff to recover against the defendants, and what should be the amount of the recovery. The writing cbligatory established his right to indemnity against loss by reason of his liability on the notes; the executions showed the amount due on the notes; and the receipt endorsed on the executions proved that he had paid the recovery against him on the notes and fixed the amount of the damage he had sustained by the failure of the defendants to perform their covenant with him.
It was claimed in argument here that the evidence did not connect the executions with the notes referred to in the writing obligatory, nor prove the genuineness of the receipts endorsed on the executions, whereby the payment of the notes by the plaintiff was sought to be shown, bio objection was interposed to the introduction of the evidence in the court below; nor the claim made that the executions were not issued upon judgments recovered on the notes against which the defendants had indemnified the plaintiff, nor that the receipts were not genuine. It is too late now to do so here. If the executions were not for the money due on the very debts referred to in the writing obligatory, then the executions were irrelevant evidence and inadmissible. If the receipts, were not genuine they were likewise inadmissible. If there had existed the least question as to the evidence in these respects it cannot be doubted that it would have been objected to by the counsel for the defendants. A party will not be permit
If there was any omission of what was technically necessary to the introduction of the evidence or to show its relevancy, the defendants by their silence in the court below waived any right they may have had to make the objection , here. Where inadmissible evidence has been received at the trial without objection, the opposite party cannot afterwards object in the appellate court to its having been received.
The court did not err in overruling the motion for a new trial. FTo ground whatever, as the record shows, was assigned in support of the motion. The evidence sustains the judgment of the court, and it is affirmed.
Affirmed.
Reference
- Cited By
- 3 cases
- Status
- Published
- Syllabus
- 1. Sale—Hile—Declaration on indemnifying bond,—Sufficiency of.—Upon the sale of an undivided interest in a newspaper, the title passes immediately to the vendee unless reserved, and in an action by the vendor against the vendee and others on an indemnifying bond made by them to save the vendor harmless against certain debts specified in the bond, for which debts the vendor, the vendee and the newspaper are bound, it is unnecessary to aver in the declaration that the vendor had transferred his interest in the paper to the vendee. Upon proof of the execution and delivery of the bond, the amount of the debts and the payment thereof by the vendor, he is entitled to recover of the obligors in the bond the amount so paid. 2. Appellate Court—Objection to admissibility of evidence for the first time— Receipts.-—Objections to the admissibility of evidence cannot be made for the first time in the Appellate Court. An objection that an execution is not for the debt it purports to be for, or that receipts are not genuine, come too late when made for the first time in the Appellate Court. A party will not be allowed by his silence in the trial court to admit the relevancy of evidence, or the genuineness of receipts, and then dispute it in the Appellate Court.