Case Name: CAMPBELL COMMISSION CO. v. TRAMMELL et al.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1896-04-28
Citations: 74 F. 917
Docket Number: No. 420
Parties: CAMPBELL COMMISSION CO. v. TRAMMELL et al.
Judges: Before PARDEE and McOORMICK, Circuit Judges, and SPEER, District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 74
Pages: 917–918

Head Matter:
CAMPBELL COMMISSION CO. v. TRAMMELL et al.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
April 28, 1896.)
No. 420.
Appeal — Review—Waiver oí' Jury and General Finding.
When a jury is waived by written stipulation, and the court makes a mere general finding of facts, and there are no exceptions to the pleadings or to the admission or rejection of evidence, there is nothing which the appellate court can review7.
In Error to Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Texas.
D. T. Bomar, for plaintiff in error.
J. W. Brown, for defendants in error.
Before PARDEE and McOORMICK, Circuit Judges, and SPEER, District Judge.

Opinion:
McOORMICK, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error, the Campbell Commission Company, brought its action against the defendants in error, Thomas Trammell & Co., and others, to recover $6,-000 and interest, charging that the defendants induced the plaintiff to make a loan of that amount to one John Bryan on fictitious security; that Bryan was insolvent, and the defendants liable'. When the case came on for trial in the circuit court the parties filed a stipulation in writing waiving a jury, and submitting thee issues of fact as well as of law to the court. The court formulated no special findings of fact, but at the end of a brief discussion of the evidence expressed his view of the' facts by the general direction, "Let judgment be entered for the defendants." Judgment was so entered, and the plaintiff sued out this writ of error/ Thee errors assigned are, in substance, that the court erred — First, in its view of the facts; and, second, in the judgment rendered. The opinion and judgment of the circuit court are equivalent to a general finding against the plaintiffs. No exception to the admission or rejection of testimony is presented. The nature of the decision is such that the plaintiff could not suggest a want of pleadings to warrant' the judgment. There is, therefore, nothing presented bv ihe record which we can review. Where a case is submitted to the court without a jury, under section 649, Rev. St., TI. S., and the court chooses to make a general finding, the losing party has no redress, except for errors occurring in the rulings on the admission or rejection of evidence or on exceptions to the pleadings. City of Key West v. Baer, 13 C. C. A. 572, 66 Fed. 440, and cases therein cited. The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.