177 A. 573 | Conn. | 1935
The complaint in this action was on the common counts. The bill of particulars sets forth $1880.80 as money loaned and expended at the defendant's request in March and December, 1924, with a credit item of $60 for payment on December 31st, 1929. The defendant, in her answer, denied the allegations *554 of the complaint and for a second defense set up the statute of limitations, and as a third defense alleged payment and, by way of counterclaim, alleged that between March 1st, 1931, and April 6th, 1933, she furnished room and board to the plaintiff, for which he promised to pay $15 per week, and asked $1750 damages. To the counterclaim, the plaintiff filed an answer denying that he had agreed to pay the sum of $15 a week for the board furnished, and alleged that the defendant had been fully paid in cash and by the performance of work and services. The case was tried to the jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff on the complaint and counterclaim and awarded him $1820.80 damages. The defendant filed a motion in arrest of judgment and on this appeal claims error in the denial of that motion by the trial court; and also assigns error in the refusal of the court to instruct the jury as requested, in the instructions as given, and in certain rulings upon evidence.
A motion in arrest of judgment is not the proper method to present a question as to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain a verdict. State v. Orlando,
Of the thirty assignments of error specified by the defendant, twenty-two relate to the refusal of the court to charge the jury in accordance with certain of the defendant's requests. An examination of these requests, however, discloses that many of them were complied with either literally or in substance by the trial court. The trial court is not bound to adopt and *555
use the language of requests to charge; it is enough if the instructions upon the points involved are correct and adequate. Slade v. Harris,
In the course of the trial, the plaintiff offered a certified copy of a mortgage given to the defendant by a man named Torrenti. The defendant objected to this evidence as immaterial and irrelevant, and assigns error in the overruling of this objection. At the trial, the plaintiff had offered evidence and claimed to have proved that at the time the original loan was made to the defendant, she promised to repay him when she disposed of certain property at Saybrook, and that in May, 1926, she did sell the property to Torrenti, receiving part cash and a purchase money mortgage for the balance; and that at the time she promised to pay the plaintiff when she received her money from this mortgage. The mortgage deed was thus relevant to establish the dates in question and as corroborating *556 the plaintiff's testimony. The other rulings upon evidence do not require discussion.
There is no error.
In this opinion the other judges concurred.