Bogard v. Bartruff
Bogard v. Bartruff
Opinion of the Court
The second amended complaint, the only complaint which is before this court for consideration, declares, on
Assignments of error are to the effect that the court erred in refusing appellants’ motion to strike the second amended complaint; in overruling appellants’ motion for nonsuit as to respondent’s first cause of action; in denying appellants’ motion for nonsuit as to respondent’s second cause of action; in denying appellant’s motion for an instructed verdict in favor of appellants; in denying appellants’ motion to dismiss, as against the appellant Maud Bartruff; in overruling appellants’ motion for a new trial; and the eighth assignment is that the verdict and judgment are not sustained by the evidence. The complaint in this action is brought so plainly within the provisions of the statute that there does not seem
It is contended by the appellants that, inasmuch as the ■verdict was for $477.50 and that inasmuch as $477.50 was the amount demanded in the first cause of action, the jury must have ignored the second cause of action and have allowed the full amount demanded in the first cause of action; and that, inasmuch as the testimony does not sustain the respondent in his demand for $477.50 on the first cause of action, the verdict was necessarily wrong. The plaintiff testified that there was due him on his first cause of action $463.60, and on his second cause of action $328.50. If the jury believed the testimony of the respondent to the effect that he had notified the appellant that he would, charge him for overtime, and believed his testimony in regard to overtime which he claimed to have worked — there really being no proof that the plaintiff did not work the number of hours that he claimed to have worked overtime — and had added to the $328.50 legal interest on that amount for which they sued, from the time the services were rendered until the date of the trial, which would have been $13.80, and $135.10, the amount admitted to be due on the first cause of action, it will be seen that it would have amounted to $477.40, or within ten cents of the amount of the verdict rendered, which is too small a discrepancy for the court to take notice of, and would thereby account for the verdict of the jury on a proper computation. It is contended by the appellants that this is a strained theory of construction, but under all the testimony in this case it seems to us to be a reasonable' one.
There are also other theories not necessary to mention which would reasonably account for the amount of the verdict. The testimony reported to this court is exceedingly meager,
So far as the claim is concerned that the court erred in denying appellants’ motion to dismiss, as against the appellant Maud Bartruff, the wife of appellant D. E. Bartruff, we think the testimony of Mrs. Bartruff is conclusive that she was a party interested, and that the services rendered were for her benefit as a member of the community.
The judgment is affirmed.
Hadley, C. J., Root, Mount, Crow, Rudkin, and Fullerton, JJ., concur.
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- L. L. Bogard v. D. E. Bartruff
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- Appeal — Review—Verdict—Suppioiency op Evidence. A verdict for $477.50, the exact amount claimed on a first cause of action, will not be set aside on appeal as contrary to the evidence from the fact that the plaintiff’s proof showed no such sum due on such cause of action, where the amount admitted to be due on the first cause of action, added to the amount claimed by the plaintiff upon a second cause of action, supported by his evidence, came to $477.40; since the verdict might have been arrived at by such computation, and ten cents is too small a discrepancy to be noticed by the courts.