47 So. 652 | Ala. | 1908
— This is an action in trover to recover damages for the alleged conversion by the defendants of certain property described in the complaint. The cause was tried on the plea of the general issue. Many exceptions during the progress of the trial were reserved by the plaintiffs to the rulings of the court on the introduction of evidence. On the conclusion of the plaintiffs’ evidence, the court on motion of the defendants excluded all of the evidence hy the plaintiffs, on the ground that the plaintiffs had failed to make out a prima facie case, whereupon plaintiffs took a nonsuit.
Under this evidence, the objection of the plaintiffs that it was not shown that James B. Ellis, as president, had authority to make said indorsements, is, we think.
By the indorsement of the notes the legal title passed to the transferee Coe. The plaintiffs’ oAvn evidence, and this undisputed, showed that at the time of the alleged conversion the plaintiffs had neither a general or special right to the property. On these undisputed facts the court might well have given the general charge, on request in writing, to find for the defendant; and this would have been the more ordinarily procedure. But as the same result Avas attained — that is, a judgment in favor of the defendant — on the motion to exclude and the exclusion of all of plaintiffs’ evidence upon the ground that a prima facie case was not made out. — we will not disturb the judgment.
Affirmed.