Dorris v. San Luis Valley Finance Co., 12950.
Decision Date | 18 January 1932 |
Docket Number | 12950. |
Citation | 7 P.2d 407,90 Colo. 209 |
Parties | DORRIS, Constable, et al. v. SAN LUIS VALLEY FINANCE CO. |
Court | Colorado Supreme Court |
In Department.
Error to District Court, Alamosa County; John I. Palmer, Judge.
Action by the San Luis Valley Finance Company against John Dorris as Constable, and another. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants bring error.
Reversed and remanded.
Pilcher & Moyers, of Alamosa, for plaintiffs in error.
Albert L. Moses, of Alamosa, for defendant in error.
John Dorris and Pedro Esquer, plaintiffs in error, will hereinafter be referred to as defendants, and the San Luis Valley Finances Company, a corporation, defendant in error as plaintiff.
Plaintiff began an action in the justice of the peace court to recover damages from defendants for the alleged conversion of an automobile; upon trial, judgment was entered for defendants. An appeal was taken to the county court where, by reason of the disqualification of the county judge, the parties entered into a stipulation, upon which an order was entered transferring the cause to the district court. In the district court, the action was tried by the district judge, without the intervention of a jury, and judgment rendered for plaintiff. Defendants prosecute this writ assigning several errors, but one of which we consider it necessary to determine in order to dispose of this writ.
Plaintiff claimed that it was the owner of a certain note secured by a chattel mortgage on the automobile in question; that default had been made in the terms and conditions of the chattel mortgage by which it became entitled to the possession of said automobile for the purpose of selling the same and applying the proceeds in accordance with the provisions of the chattel mortgage. Plaintiff also claimed some rights under a certificate of title to the automobile which was issued and dated February 10, 1931. Defendants claimed right of possession to said automobile by reason of the levy upon the same under and by virtue of a writ of execution issued out of the justice of the peace court on February 21, 1931, which levy was made on March 2, 1931. Over the protest of plaintiff, defendants took the automobile and sold the same under the execution, and this action in conversion resulted.
At the trial in the district court, Wilfred M. Moses, secretary of plaintiff, while being cross-examined as a witness, was asked the following questions to which were interposed the following objections, in passing upon which the court made the following rulings:
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