Richburg v. Cromwell
| Decision Date | 04 March 1983 |
| Citation | 428 So.2d 621 |
| Parties | Evelyn T. RICHBURG, et al. v. Gerlean CROMWELL, et al. 81-808. |
| Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Steve A. Baccus and J. Michael Tanner of Almon, McAlister, Ashe, Baccus & Smith, Tuscumbia, for appellants.
Frank V. Potts and T. Michael Putnam of Potts, Young & Blasingame, Florence, for appellees.
Defendants appeal from an order denying their motion for new trial or, in the alternative, JNOV.
We affirm.
Plaintiffs sued the defendants for damages for personal injuries and property damage arising out of an automobile accident. Defendants filed a counterclaim for damage to their vehicle.
The case was tried to a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs and against the defendants on both the plaintiffs' claim and the defendants' counterclaim on February 3, 1982.
Defendants filed their motion for new trial on March 1, 1982. The motion was set for hearing on March 23, 1982, but no hearing was held on that date, and no order was entered continuing the hearing to a date certain. Significantly, no evidence by affidavit or otherwise was offered in support of the motion, neither on the day set for hearing nor at any time prior to May 31, 1982, when the same was overruled by operation of law. Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 59.1.
Thereafter, without notice to the plaintiffs and after notice of appeal was filed, the defendants sought to supplement the record on appeal by including evidence in support of their motion for new trial. The trial court first allowed the motion but thereafter set its order aside and vacated the same because the evidence sought to be included in the record on appeal was never offered in the trial court.
Defendants now claim error by the trial court in two particulars: First, in not granting a new trial because of alleged misconduct on the part of a juror; and second, in vacating its order allowing the record on appeal to be supplemented. Assuming that the evidence offered, after notice of appeal was filed, in support of the motion for new trial was sufficient to require a new trial, which we do not decide, it came too late and was not properly presented to the trial court. Defendants merely sought to include in the record on appeal, and ask us to review, evidence which was never presented to the trial court. This we cannot do. We review alleged error of the trial judge only. In the posture of the case before us, there is nothing to review.
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