Schlotfeldt v. Bull

Decision Date06 April 1897
Citation48 P. 343,17 Wash. 6
PartiesSCHLOTFELDT ET AL. v. BULL ET AL.
CourtWashington Supreme Court

Appeal from superior court, Kittitas county; Carroll B. Graves, Judge.

Action by J. J. Schlotfeldt and another, doing business as Schlotfeldt Bros., against Walter A. Bull and others. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Motion by respondents to strike from the records the statement of facts. Denied.

H. J. Snively, for appellants.

Frank H. Rudkin, for respondents.

DUNBAR, J.

The respondents move the court to strike from the records and from the files of the court the statement of facts heretofore settled and certified, for the reason that no exceptions were taken or made to the findings of fact and conclusions of law made and filed in said cause. This motion is based on the announcement of this court made in Rice v. Stevens, 9 Wash. 298, 37 P. 440; Manufacturing Co. v. Adler, 12 Wash. 24, 40 P. 383; and many following cases of substantially the same import. But, while we have decided in the cases cited that we would not review facts which had not been duly excepted to by an exception to the finding of facts, we think this case can be distinguished. The appellants' cause of complaint in this case is that the court rejected certain testimony which they sought to offer. The ruling of the court on the introduction of such testimony was excepted to, and we think that was sufficient; and a different case is presented from one where the facts are contested, or where testimony is admitted by the court and objected to by the appellant. So far as the facts which were found by the court are concerned, they were true and were properly found under the testimony which was admitted, and it would not have been consistent for the appellants to have objected to the findings of fact under the testimony admitted by the court. We think, therefore, that where the appeal is from an error of the court in refusing to admit testimony, and such refusal is duly excepted to at the time it is not incumbent upon the appellant to again except to the findings of fact. The motion will be denied.

SCOTT, C.J., and REAVIS, ANDERS, and GORDON, JJ., concur.

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  • Northern Life Ins. Co. v. Walker
    • United States
    • Washington Supreme Court
    • 19 January 1923
    ... ... denied a trial by jury: Thompson v. Huron Lumber ... Co., 5 Wash. 527, 32 P. 536; Schlotfeldt v ... Bull, 17 Wash. 6, 48 P. 343; Bruce v. Foley, 18 ... Wash. 96, 50 P. 935; Lilly v. Eklund, 37 Wash. 532, ... 79 P. 1107; ... ...
  • Jones v. Bard
    • United States
    • Washington Supreme Court
    • 31 July 1952
    ...does not apply and the rule is therefore otherwise where the assignment of error relates to the exclusion of testimony. Schlotfeldt v. Bull, 17 Wash. 6, 48 P. 343; Lilly v. Eklund, 37 Wash. 532, 79 P. 1107; Berens v. Cox, 70 Wash. 627, 127 P. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded,......
  • Pederson v. Ullrich
    • United States
    • Washington Supreme Court
    • 6 August 1908
    ... ... 123, 82 P ... 179; Horrell v. California, etc., Association, 40 ... Wash. 531, 82 P. 889. The appellants, citing Schlotfeldt ... v. Bull, 17 Wash. 6, 48 P. 343, Lilly v ... Eklund, 37 Wash. 532, 79 P. 1107, Smith v ... Glenn, 40 Wash. 262, 82 P. 605, and ... ...
  • Berens v. Cox
    • United States
    • Washington Supreme Court
    • 29 October 1912
    ... ... might, if admitted and considered, change the character of ... the findings. Hence it has been held in Schlotfeldt v ... Bull, 17 Wash. 6, 48 P. 343, Lilly v. Eklund, ... 37 Wash. 532, 79 P. 1107, Bringgold v. Bringgold, 40 ... Wash. 121, 82 P ... ...
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