Mooneyham v. Herring

97 So. 638 | Ala. | 1923

The report of a former appeal may be found in 204 Ala. 332,85 So. 390, where the nature of the case is stated. On the trial which followed the return of the cause to the circuit court, a jury again found for the claimant, and again the plaintiff has appealed.

The first fifty-seven assignments of error are treated generally, and not in detail, in appellant's brief, and we have found no compelling reason why we should treat them differently. Our judgment is that most of the evidence admitted over appellant's objection was relevant to the issue whether claimant occupied the premises as subtenant under her husband, as appellant claimed, or as tenant in chief under appellant, as the claimant, appellee, claimed, appellant's lien on the crops grown on the place depending on a finding that claimant occupied the premises as subtenant under her husband — this for the reason that, without dispute, the crops were raised by claimant and her children while defendant was away at work on the county roads, and because the writ of attachment was issued against defendant as plaintiff's tenant and debtor.

True, evidence was admitted with the purpose and tending to prove that claimant had paid in one way and another the full amount of the rent she, according to her theory of the relation between herself and the plaintiff, had assumed to pay as rent for the premises, and this evidence was irrelevant in the event of a finding that the claimant was tenant in chief under plaintiff; but plaintiff denied the relation to be as claimant contended, and introduced evidence tending to support his contention, and, in the event of a finding for plaintiff on this issue, the evidence here in question was admissible as going to prove payment of the rent, and so also and in like event was the evidence admissible which claimant introduced to show the arrangement between herself and her husband, defendant in attachment, by which the crops she raised were to belong to her, and that plaintiff had released or waived his lien for the debt, other than rent, by accepting a different security, so that, in any event, the crops levied on were not subject to plaintiff's attachment.

On considerations like unto those stated in the paragraph next above, the court's oral instruction to the jury, complained of in assignments of error 58 and 59, does not appear to have been erroneous — this we say notwithstanding the exception failed to point out with sufficient specification the part of the charge excepted to.

As to the motion for a new trial: The bill of exceptions does not purport to set out all the evidence nor all of its tendencies. Lamar v. King, 168 Ala. 290, 53 So. 279. In this state of the record it will be presumed on appeal that evidence was introduced that would uphold the ruling of the trial court.168 Ala. 290, 53 So. 279.

The judgment must be affirmed.

Affirmed.

ANDERSON, C. J., and GARDNER and MILLER, JJ., concur.