O'Hara v. Mobile & O.R. Co.
Decision Date | 26 October 1896 |
Docket Number | 774. |
Citation | 76 F. 718 |
Parties | O'HARA v. MOBILE & O.R. Co. |
Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — Eighth Circuit |
Given Campbell (O'Neill Ryan with him on the brief), for plaintiff in error.
R. P Williams, for defendant in error.
Before CALDWELL, SANBORN, and THAYER, Circuit Judges.
CALDWELL Circuit Judge, after stating the case as above, .
The case was tried by the court, which made a general finding of facts upon which judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant. In Dirst v. Morris, 14 Wall. 484, 490 the supreme court, speaking by Mr. Justice Bradley, said:
The doctrine of this case that, where a jury is waived, and the court finds generally for one side or the other, the losing party has no redress on error except for the wrongful admission or rejection of evidence, has been repeatedly affirmed by the supreme court and by this court and by other circuit courts of appeals. Insurance Co. v. Folsom, 18 Wall. 237; Cooper v. Omohundro, 19 Wall. 65; British Queen Min. Co. v. Baker Silver Min. Co., 139 U.S. 222, 11 Sup.Ct. 523; Martinton v. Fairbanks, 112 U.S. 670, 5 Sup.Ct. 321; Lehnen v. Dickson, 148 U.S. 71, 13 Sup.Ct. 481; Stanley v. Supervisors, 121 U.S. 535, 7 Sup.Ct. 1234; Walker v. Miller, 19 U.S.App. 403, 8 C.C.A. 331, and 59 F. 869; Searcy Co. v. Thompson, 27 U.S.App. 715, 13 C.C.A. 349, and 66 F. 92; Insurance Co. v. Hamilton, 22 U.S.App. 386, 11 C.C.A. 42, and 63 F. 93; Insurance Co. of North America v. International Trust Co., 17 C.C.A. 616, 71 F. 88; Accident Ass'n v. Robinson, 20 C.C.A. 262, 74 F. 10; City of Key West v. Baer, 13 C.C.A. 572, 66 F. 440; Rhodes v. Bank, 13 C.C.A. 612, 66 F. 512; Distilling & Cattle Feeding Co. v. Gottschalk Co., 13 C.C.A. 618, 66 F. 609; Blanchard v. Bank, 75 F. 249. In Lehnen v. Dickson, supra, the supreme court said:
We will examine the assignments of error relating to the admission of evidence over the objection of the plaintiff. The defendant offered in evidence a transcript of the record of the proceedings of the United States circuit court for the Southern district of Illinois in the case of the Atlantic Trust Company and the Railroad Equipment Company against Henry O'Hara and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company. The plaintiff in this suit, O'Hara, was a party to that suit and appeared therein, and answered. The record contained matters material to the issues in this case. Its introduction in evidence was objected to on the ground that it did not contain all the exhibits to the original bill. A sufficient answer to this objection is found in the fact that the original exhibits were afterwards duly proved, and introduced in evidence. A party, however, desiring to use as evidence some part of the record of a judicial proceeding may do so without producing a transcript of the whole record. It is enough for...
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