15 S.D. 263 | S.D. | 1901
At the suit of a creditor of plaintiff’s husband the defendant sheriff attached $943 paid to the Armour State Bank by puchasers of some South Dakota land standing in her name. In this action for the wrongful conversion thereof she obtained the judgment here presented for review. Though controverted by prominent circumstances, we find the testimony sufficient to justify the conclusion of the jury that respondent, for a valuable consideration, and in good faith, purchased ,and became the fee-simple owner of certain real property in the state of Iowa, which was exchanged for the land conveyed by her in consideration of the money seized as the property of her husband. Without further comment we pass from the contention that the evidence is insufficient. The remaining questions relate to the rejection of certain instructions proposed by counsel for appellant and the charge as given to the jury by the trial court. Now, as the record presented on this appeal purports to give only a fragmentary portion of what counsel for appellant say “was a long charge to the jury,” it will be presumed in support of the judgment that, as an entirety, such charge, given by the court on its own motion, properly covered everything contained in the instructions offered and refused, so far as the same were allowable. It is urged that there is no evidence to sustain the following prefatory instruction: “The theory of the plaintiff' in this case, as I understand it from the evidence, is, very briefly stated, this': -That at a certain time she gave to her husband, William IColbe, a certain sum of money, which I' believe is stated to' have been' the sum of $360; that there was some agreement or understanding between herself and husband that at some time, which appears to have been left indefinite,' the husband was to repay this money.” Both respondent and her husband testified positively that at the -time of their marriage, which occurred in 1878, the former had $360, which she