Case Name: Charles Berntsen, Resp't, v. John T. Huner, App'lt
Court: Brooklyn City Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1894-10-22
Citations: 62 N.Y. St. Rep. 654
Docket Number: 
Parties: Charles Berntsen, Resp’t, v. John T. Huner, App’lt.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York State Reporter
Volume: 62
Pages: 654–655

Head Matter:
Charles Berntsen, Resp’t, v. John T. Huner, App’lt.
(Brooklyn City Court, General Term,
Filed October 22, 1894.)
Pleadings—Demurrer—Misjoinder..
An objection on the ground of misjoinder of causes of action must he takep -by -demurrer.
Appeal from a j udgment entered on a verdict in favor of plaintiff, and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.
Uriah W. Tompkins, for app’lt; L. H. Hurst, for resp’t.

Opinion:
Van Wyck, J.
Plaintiff recovered a verdict herein for .$450, and from the judgment entered thereupon, and from the order denying .motion for new trial, this appeal is taken. Assuming that appellant's contention is correct, that there are two causes of action,^-one for trespass upon real estate, and the other for trespass against the person , (an assault),—even then he is in no position to raise the question that they were improperly united, for he waived that objection by failing to make it upon demurrer. Code Civ. Proc. § 484, 488, 499. Upon the refusal of the trial court to charge a general request that, for trespass, only nominal.damages can be recovered, error cannot be predicated, for it cannot be seriously insisted upon that, for trespass against the person (an assault), such a rule is correct. Wq think the testimony sustains the verdict, and that the verdict is not excessive. Judgment and order must be affirmed, -with costs.
Osborne, J., concurs.