64 So. 163 | Ala. Ct. App. | 1913
Though the written contract which one Page and the appellants (defendants below) signed was not a lease from the appellee, but an executory agreement for a lease (Harrison v. Parmer, 76 Ala. 157), and, whether or not by that contract the appellants became' bound as principals or as sureties, yet if the execution of it was followed by the appellants entering upon or assuming dominion of the premises mentioned, a recovery of the rent for the entire term may be had under the count for use and occupation, without any other proof of use and occupation than such entry by them, though they quitted the premises before the term-expired ; and the contract may be looked to to ascertain the amount of the rent and the length of the term agreed upon. — Crommelin v. Thiess & Co., 31 Ala. 412, 70 Am. Dec. 499; Howard v. Jones, 123 Ala. 488, 26 South. 129; A. G. Rhodes Furniture Co. v. Weeden & Dent, 108 Ala. 252, 19 South. 318; Smith v. Pritchett, 98 Ala. 649, 13 South. 569.
Plaintiff’s counsel asked the witness Sage, who was one of the plaintiff’s rental agents, “Did you or not look to them — Haas Bros.- — as tenants of the property alone with Page?” It may be conceded that the question was subject to the objection made to it by the defendants. But it is not necessarily a reversible error to permit a witness to state his conclusion in answer to such a question when the Avitness has already stated the facts upon which his conclusion was based. — Louisville & Nashville R. Co. v. Williams (Sup.) 62 South. 679. This witness had testified to the fact that he, as plaintiff’s agent, during the period covered by the contract for a lease, and while the property was actually occu
The only plea upon which the case went to the jury was the general issue. The assignments of error upon the rulings by which other pleas were disposed of are not sought to be supported by argument. There was nothing in the case to indicate that the plaintiff had made any covenant or agreement as to the condition of the premises or repairs upon them. In this situation evidence as to the premises being out of repair or in an unsanitary condition was not pertinent to any issue in the case, and the court was not in error in excluding evidence bearing only upon such inquiries. — Murphy, et al. v. Farley, 124 Ala. 279, 27 South. 442; Rothe v. Bellingrath, 71 Ala. 55.
Obvious considerations lead us to the conclusion that there was no reversible error in any of the other rulings on evidence which are assigned as errors. The questions so presented are not such as to call for a discussion of them. We discover no reversible error in the record.
Affirmed.