Case ID: ny-st-rep_63/html/0526-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bischoff, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Davie Schaff et al., Resp’ts, v. John Miles, Impleaded, etc., App’lt.
    
      (New York Common Pleas, General Term,
    
    
      Filed December 3, 1894.)
    
    1. Appeal—First instance.
    A party cannot be heard to complain that it was error to submit the case to the jury, where he did not, at any time, make objection to the sufficiency of the evidence.
    3. Same— Charge—Exceptions.
    Error is not to be predicated of the charge, in the absence of an excep tian which indicates the exceptant’s objection.
    Appeal from a judgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiffs, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
    
      B. C. Ghetwood, for app’lt; A. Stern, for resp’ts.
   Bischoff, J.

The record does not disclose that any exception was taken on the trial to the admission or exclusion of evidence, and upon evidence, to the sufficiency of which neither party at any time made objection—except that the defendants did so upon a ground so clearly untenable that it was not urged upon this appeal—the facts litigated were submitted to the jury for determination. Ho injustice is apparent from the verdict in the plaintiffs’ favor, and having speculated upon the chance of a result favorable to themselves, the defendants should not now be heard to complain that it was error to submit the case to the jury. Barrett v. Third Ave. Railroad Co., 45 N. Y. 628, 632; Rowe v. Stevens, 44 How. Pr. 10; St. John v. Skinner, id. 198; Casper v. O'Brien, 47 How. Pr. 80.

Error is not to be predicated of the charge, in the absence of an exception which indicates the excepting party’s objection. Mc-Ginley v. U. S. Life Ins. Co., 77 N. Y. 495; People ex rel. Dailey v. Livingston, 79 N. Y. 279, 292. From the absence of an exception to the remark when the learned trial judge, in addressing the jury, said, “I observe that some of you are business men,” it is apparent that counsel for the defendants did not disagree until after the jury had made known the result of their deliberations. It is not to be inferred from the remark that the trial judge intended to instruct the jury that they were to disregard the evidence, and arrive at a result agreeably to their sense of business propriety, or that the jury so understood it.

The judgment and order should be affirmed, with costs.

All concur.