27 Neb. 553 | Neb. | 1889
This cause is brought on error to review the judgment of the district court of Buffalo county.
Nelson Schooley, the plaintiff below, alleged that the defendant, Chester Holloway, on December 18, 1886, falsely and maliciously, and without reasonable and probable cause, complained under oath before T. J. Mahoney, a justice of the peace of Gibbon township, in said county, that on December 13,1886, the plaintiff went to the house
The defendant answered denying specifically that he made a complaint on December 18,1886, under oath falsely, maliciously, and without probable cause before a justice of the peace of Gibbon township, in said county, as set out in plaintiff’s petition.
II. Denying specifically that he caused to be issued by the said justice, falsely, maliciously, and without probable cause, a warrant for the arrest of the plaintiff.
III. Denying that on December 22, 1886, he dismissed the said complaint against the plaintiff, but that the same was dismissed at the instance of George E. Evans, who was acting in the capacity of state prosecutor.
IV. That he admits that he made the complaint alleged,
V. That he denies specifically that the plaintiff ivas put to great trouble and annoyance and expense, or was brought into public scandal and disgrace, or that, by reason of the premises, plaintiff was damaged in the sum of $2,000, or in any other amount, or on any other account, connected with said charge and complaint.
There Avas a trial to a jury, with verdict for the plaintiff for $500 damages. The motion of defendant to set aside the verdict being overruled, judgment was entered for the amount of the verdict and costs, to which the defendant excepts, and forty days allowed in Avhieh to reduce bill of exceptions to Avriting.
The plaintiff in error assigns the folloAving errors in the trial in the court below :
1. ExcessiAre damages awarded by the jury, unwarranted by the evidence and the instructions of the court on its motion, appearing to have been given under the influence of passion and prejudice.
2. Errors excepted to on the trial.
3. Error of instruction No. 1, by the court on its own motion.
4. Instructions Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, on request of plaintiff.
5. In refusing Nos. 5 and.6, on request of defendant.
6. The verdict is not sustained by sufficient evidence.
7. In ovei’ruling the motion for neAv trial.
On motion of defendant in error to strike from the files the bill of exceptions presented, for the reason that the same had not been alloAved and certified by the court beloAV, nor filed in the office of the clerk of the district court, but Avas an unauthorized bill of exceptions, the motion Avas sustained. The bill of exceptions having been stricken out of the record, so much of the errors assigned as refer to excessive damages, errors of laAAr, and want of sufficient
The other errors assigned are based upon- the giving, or the refusal to give, certain instructions by the court to the jury. By inspection of the record it does not appear that either the instructions given by the court on its own motion, or those given at the request of the plaintiff, or those requested by the defendant and refused by the court, were excepted to by the plaintiff in error upon the trial. The province of this court of review to interpose and consider the errors assigned is, therefore, at an end, so far as this cause is concerned, it being a settled rule that the giving or refusal of instructions to a jury, unless exceptions shall be taken, and made of record at the time, by the complaining party, will not be considered as grounds for reversal in the supreme court. The judgment of the district court is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.