10 S.D. 141 | S.D. | 1897
This is an action in claim a delivery. Judgment for the defendant, and the plaintiff appeals. The defendant claimed to be the owner and entitled to the possession of the property by virtue of a chattel mortgage sale made under a mortgage executed by the plaintiff to the Chamberlain National Bank. The validity of this sale is the only question involved in the appeal. The sale was made in front of the court house, in the city of Chamberlain, Brule county, and the
The mortgage having been executed in Brule county, duly filed there, and containing the stipulation that notice of sale should be published in that county, it would seem that evidence tending to prove that the property was in fact in Lyman county would be incompetent, as tending to contradict the terms of the chattel mortgage, and was therefore properly excluded. It might have been properly excluded also upon the ground that the plaintiff was estopped from proving any fact that tended to show that the recitals in the mortgage were not true as against the defendant, who acquired the property after the sale under the mortgage. If, therefore, the findings are not sufficient to sustain the ruling of the court, then this court must, in the absence of a copy of the chattel mortgage and the other evidence given on the trial, presume that the recitals and stipulationsfin the mortgage were such as to justify the court’s ruling, -and no error would therefore be-affirmatively shown by the record. The rule is well settled that, to entitle a party to a reversal of a judgment, error must be affirmatively shown. Kent v. Insurance Co., 2 S. D. 300, 50 N. W. 85.
It is further contended by appellant that there is no finding that the property was ever situated in Brule county, but we think the finding that the chattel mortgage was duly filed in that county was, in effect, a finding that it was there situated at the time the mortgage was executed.
Appellant further contends that the board of county commissioners of Brule county had not legally designated any place for the sale of mortgaged property, as required by Section 3,
It is further contended by appellant that the notice of sale was not published in the newspaper printed and published nearest the place of sale, as provided in Section 4 of said chapter. The section reads as follows: “The notice shall be published * * * in the newspaper of general circulation printed and published nearest the place of sale in the county wherein the mortgage shall have been filed. ’’ The court found that there were three newspapers printed and published in the city of Chamberlain. It further found that, measured on an air line, the South Dakota Democrat was the nearest to the front of the court house, and the Journal next nearest; but, measured by the line of the streets, the Chamberlain Register was nearest, and the Journal was the furthest away. But, in the view we take of the case, this finding was immaterial, except so far as it finds the Journal was a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the
Which of the newspapers at Chamberlain was nearest to the front of the court house?' Was it the one nearest measured on an air line, or the one nearest measured along streets? In Cameron v. Seaman, 69 N. Y. 396, the court of appeals of New York thus speak of a similar statute: “There is an independent ground upon which the liability of this defendant is claimed viz: that the Poughkeepsie Eagle, in which the report wag