59 N.H. 515 | N.H. | 1880
It does not expressly appear from the case that the docket entry in regard to mesne profits was made in consequence of Swan's application for a continuance; but such is the inference, and any doubt that might otherwise exist is removed by the admission of his counsel, made during the argument, that the order was suggested by himself. The motion involved delay, and loss of rents to the plaintiff during the delay, if he should prevail in the end; for Swan's mortgage being subject to the plaintiff's, he stood no better with the plaintiff than a mortgagor stands with the mortgagee. Brown v. Cram,
Swan's claim, that he is liable only for mesne profits actually received after deducting proper expenses, is not, as an absolute or universal rule, correct. Mayne Dam. 392 (Wood's ed., s. 584). It omits the consideration of material circumstances, the most important, perhaps, being the proper management of the premises. The rule proposed by him would relieve him from the consequences of bad husbandry, and perhaps from the consequences of mismanagement, not wholly unpremeditated.
Case discharged.
CLARK, J., did not sit: the others concurred.