52 Neb. 465 | Neb. | 1897
The D. M. Osborn Company sued Jordan on a promissory note. Jordan admitted its execution and pleaded that it was given in consideration of a sale of a harvesting machine, which the plaintiff at the time warranted to be good and perfect and to do as good work as any machine made; that the plaintiff further agreed to send an expert to put the machine in order before the next ensuing harvest, and to furnish all needed repairs; that the note was made relying on such warranty and agreement; that the machine was not good and would not do good work and was without value, and that the plaintiff failed to perform its agreement with regard to repairing /'the machine. In the district court there was a verdict and judgment favorable to the defendant, and plaintiff ~ prosecutes error.
The first complaint made is that the verdict is contrary /to law and is not sustained by the evidence. The defendant’s theory was that the machine had been first sold to defendant’s son, and certain overdue notes given by him in payment therefor being in the hands of one W. L. Thompson for collection, the defendant agreed with Thompson to himself take the machine on Thompson’s •. making the warranty and agreement pleaded. He thereupon gave the note, and the machine was delivered to vhim. The evidence on his part fairly tends to support this theory. The plaintiff’s theory was that Thompson, as its collecting agent, took the note by way of security and extension of time of payment of the son’s debt; that no sale wa.s made to defendant, and that Thompson was without authority to make either the warranty or the
It is claimed that the court erred in excluding portions of the deposition of Thompson. The objection and ruling are both somewhat vague, and it is impossible to determine just "what portion of the deposition was excluded. We cannot see, however, that any evidence which could possibly have been deemed to fall within the objection was material to the only essential controverted issue,— the fact of the warranty and contract to repair.
Affirmed.