29 F.2d 402 | 5th Cir. | 1928
This case is here on appeal for the second time. Its nature and the issues involved in it are fully stated in the opinion of Judge Walker on the first appeal (C. C. A.) 22 F.(2d) 793. In the second trial, which is sought to he reviewed by this appeal, the same issues were submitted to the jury, and judgment was entered on their verdict for appellees. Before the second trial was begun, appellees filed a trial amendment which pleaded defenses based on appellant’s bankruptcy and assignment of his interest in the suit, and also that the assignment from Mrs. Griffith of a third interest in the land, as set out in our former opinion, was without consideration. This was an additional attack upon the assignment, as in the original answer of appellees it was only attacked on the grounds that Mrs. Griffith was a married woman, and, as such, was not bound by the assignment, and that the assignment itself was obtained by fraud. The order of the court overruling exceptions to this trial amendment is assigned as error. The only other assignments relate to the court’s charges to which no exceptions were taken, and the overruling of a motion for new trial.
Clearly, it was within the court’s discretion to allow the trial amendment. As the
The judgment is affirmed.