106 Mo. App. 141 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1904
(after stating the facts). — 1. Appellant alleged in his answer that the interpleaders were not necessary parties to the suit and insists here that they had no legal capacity to sue by interplea. If the interpleaders have no capacity to sue, the fact appeared on the face of their interplea and the objection should have been raised’ by special demurrer. Section 598, Code of Civil Procedure, R. S. 1899. By answering the plaintiff waived the objection. The Mechanics’ Bank to use of Davis v. Gilpin, 105 Mo. 17; Gregory v. McCormick, 120 Mo. 657.
2. There are some minor and technical objections to the abstracts filed and we are asked- to call for the original bill of exceptions. An examination of the abstracts shows that the appeal was taken in proper form and they contain enough of the evidence heard at the trial to fully possess us of the facts of the case, hence there is no necessity to resort to the bill of exceptions.
4. Because it is admitted that Wade, by a system of false accounts and by entering into a conspiracy with others, could have withdrawn the entire deposit and appropriated it to his own use, it is contended that the
5. Objections were made to the introduction of parol evidence in respect to the contents of the contract. This evidence was introduced before the contract itself was produced on the trial. An examination of the evidence shows that it did not contradict the terms of the contract in any particular, and while it was inadmissible, after it was shown that there was a written contract in existence that could be produced and was after-wards produced, the error is non-prejudicial, as the evidence neither contradicted nor varied the terms of the contract. But whether or not there was error committed in the admission of evidence, the error will not avail appellant, for the reason that under the competent evidence, to which no objections were interposed, the judgment is clearly for the right party and should not be reversed, notwithstanding incompetent evidence was admitted at the trial. Southern, etc., Bank v. Slattery’s Admr., 166 Mo. 620; Swanson v. City of Sedalia, 89 Mo. App. 121.
The judgment is affirmed.