Tyler v. North American Transportation & Trading Co.
Tyler v. North American Transportation & Trading Co.
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Action for damages on breach of contract of carriage of plaintiff Elvira C. Tyler from Seattle to Dawson City, by way of St. Michaels and the Yukon' river, in 1897. The damages alleged were injured health and sickness, and expenses incident thereto, as well as expenses attending the delay in failure to transport plaintiff according to contract. There are but two errors assigned: (1) The court erred in refusing to grant a new trial on the ground of newly discovered testimony; (2) the court erred in denying defendant’s motion to strike from the complaint the exhibit annexed thereto, and in denying the motion at the close of the argument that the exhibit be stricken from the pleading or that the pleading be withheld from the jury.
Relative to the first assignment, it appears that the deposition of the plaintiff George Tyler was taken upon interrogatories propounded by the plaintiffs, and. upon notice to the defendant, at Dawson, and that the deposition was filed with the clerk of the trial court during the progress of the trial, and about the time the plaintiff Elvira C. Tyler was testifying; that the testimony at the time of the filing of the deposition was not concluded; that
The exhibit complained of was attached to the complaint, and was a statement of the items of damage which were demanded from defendant, and ai&ounted to a large sum, — something over $7,000. The amount demanded in the complaint was less. We cannot perceive that the court’s ruling upon the exhibit remaining attached to the complaint is reversible error. The instructions of the court fully advised the jury of the limit of the damages claimed and what was before them for investigation.
The assignments of error failing, the judgment is affirmed.
Dunbar and Anders, JJ., concur.
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- NEW TRIAL-NEWLY DISCOVERED EVIDENCE-DISCRETION OF COURT. The denial of a new trial to defendant on the ground of newly discovered evidence does not constitute an abuse of discretion, when tbe newly discovered evidence consisted of statements made by plaintiff’s husband differing from her own testimony, given in a deposition by-him, which was taken on notice, and published during the trial without the knowledge of defendant, when the court gives full effect to any inferences deducible from the deposition in overruling the motion for new trial on condition that plaintiffs remit a portion of their verdict. PLEADING —■ EXHIBITS STRIKING OUT. The refusal of the court tp strike from a complaint an exhibit containing a statement of items of damage demanded from defendant, which named a sum in excess of the amount demanded in the complaint, was not prejudicial, when the court fully advised the jury of the limit of damages claimed and what was before them for investigation.