Opinion ID: 1774020
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: the campbell application

Text: Campbell attacks the trial court's submission of the contract issue to the jury. The only special issues submitted to the jury were as follows: ISSUE NO. 1 Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that Norman N. Campbell orally agreed to loan R. O. Davis $55,000.00 to purchase the property in question from the Wyche Estate on the terms of ten percent interest and payments of fees of $6,500.00 and $2,000.00? Answer We do or We do not. ANSWER We do. If you have answered the last preceding issue We do, then answer the next following issue; otherwise, do not answer the next following issue. ISSUE NO. 2 Find from a preponderance of the evidence the amount of money, if any, R. O. Davis would have received from the proceeds of the sale of the property in question on July 20, 1972, if Norman N. Campbell had performed such agreement. Answer in dollars and cents, if any. ANSWER $20,624.38. Campbell argues that the submission inquired only into a preliminary agreement and wholly failed to inquire of the final agreement which was effective between the parties at the time the transaction was closed. Campbell argues that Special Issue No. 1 submitted by the trial court is immaterial, as it did not require the jury to determine an ultimate or controlling issue in the case. He concedes that no objection was directed to the special issue on that ground in the trial court, but insists that his objection to the issue on the ground that it was not raised by the evidence served the same purpose. Clearly, a no evidence objection is not a complaint that the special issue was immaterial. Campbell also objected in the trial court to Special Issue No. 1 on the grounds that it was multifarious in that it asked the jury to determine two issues: (1) the existence of an agreement and (2) the terms of the agreement. Again, the objection that the issue is multifarious clearly is not a complaint that the issue submitted was not the controlling issue. To preserve error Campbell was required to point out distinctly the matter to which he objected and the ground of his objection. Tex.R.Civ.P. 274. Where a litigant fails to distinctly object upon a certain ground, complaint on that ground is waived on appeal. Wilson v. King, 311 S.W.2d 957 (Tex.Civ.App.Austin 1958, writ ref'd n.r. e.), Tex.R.Civ.P. 272. Here Campbell wholly failed to object to the submission on the grounds that it failed to submit the controlling issue. Campbell's objections give no indication to the trial court of his complaint that the submission concerned the wrong agreement. Therefore, Campbell waived any error on that ground.