32 Kan. 350 | Kan. | 1884
The opinion of the court was delivered by
A motion for a rehearing has been presented in this case, and a motion has been filed to recall the mandate and modify the judgment rendered by this court, so as to permit a new trial in the district court. (See 28 Kas. 262.)
The contention is, that as § 7 of ch. 55 of the act in relation to landlords and tenants provides that the tenancy for three months or longer may be terminated by a ten-days notice in writing to quit for the non-payment of rent, that the notices served were insufficient because they required the defendant “to leave” instead of “to quit” the premises of the plaintiff. “To leave” as used in the notices served is synonymous with “to quit,” and the statute referred to was substantially complied with. The plaintiff served the first notice in writing upon the defendant to leave the premises, about the 1st day of May, 1880, and he served a second notice upon defendant on July 24,1880, but did not commence his action of forcible detainer until July 23, 1881; and therefore it is claimed that, as the plaintiff omitted to commence his action for such length of time after the service of the last notice, it was nec
In support of the motion to recall the mandate and modify the judgment rendered by this court, our attention is called to the record, which states that the plaintiff, to maintain the issue on his part, offered and read in evidence testimony showing the facts to be as afterward specifically found by the court, and rested. Thereupon the defendant offered no evidence, but moved the court for judgment on the plaintiff’s evidence. The plaintiff objected. The court overruled the objection and ■ granted the motion, and plaintiff excepted; whereupon, the plaintiff having previously requested the same to be done, the court stated in writing the conclusions of fact found separately from the conclusions of law.
An affidavit has also been filed, tending to prove what occurred upon the trial. We are bound by the record before us, as it comes in the form of a case-made, and the case must therefore be controlling. If the defendant had interposed and filed a demurrer to the evidence of plaintiff after he had closed his case, upon the ground that no cause of action had been proved, then upon reversing the ruling of the court sustaining such demurrer, we would have directed a new trial. The record does not purport to contain any demurrer to the evidence, and we must interpret it to mean that the case was submitted to the court upon the evidence presented by the plaintiff’. The plaintiff had previously requested the court to find the facts specially, and state its conclusions of law thereon. This was afterward done by the court, and the case came to this court upon the facts found by the court below. In such a case, when
If the defendant was willing to submit the case upon the evidence presented by plaintiff, he had the right so to do; but having submitted the case upon such evidence, he cannot now claim that he merely intended to demur to the evidence, or that the submission of the case upon the evidence of plaintiff had the same effect as the filing of a demurrer thereto. After the case was submitted, the court, in complying with the request of plaintiff, and in the performance of its duty, made special findings, and now we perceive no way by which the case is to be reopened, after judgment has been rendered upon the findings in this court, so that additional evidence known to and in the possession of the defendant at the trial of the case may be introduced to lay the foundation for new and other findings. The motion wall be overruled.
John C. Douglass v. Benjamin Anderson.
The judgment of the district court will be reversed, upon the authority of Duffitt v. Crozier, 30 Kas. 150 and the case of Douglass v. Anderson, upon a motion for rehearing, just decided.