Court Opinion

ID: 8749348
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 11:19:43.935214+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:00:51.744514
License: Public Domain

DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
In the courts of the United States, whatever may be the rule in other jurisdictions, a trial judge is not obliged to specifically and directly answer every point which may be submitted by counsel. Improvement Co. v. Stead, 95 U. S. 166, 24 L. Ed. 403; Insurance Co. v. Ward, 140 U. S. 76, 11 Sup. Ct. 720, 35 L. Ed. 371; Railroad Co. v. O’Brien, 16 C. C. A. 216, 69 Fed. 223. If the court’s instructions, as a whole, fully, correctly, and clearly present the law, nothing more can be required; and careful examination of all that was said by the learned judge in this case has entirely satisfied us that he explained the whole law applicable to it, in precise conformity with our decision, made about a year ago, in the similar case of Salem Iron Co. v. Lake Superior Consol. Iron Mines, 50 C. C. A. 213, 112 Fed. 239. We have not been convinced that that decision was, upon any point, erroneous, and nothing need now be added to what was then said.
No error was committed in admitting the testimony that the contract in suit had not been objected to. Nonobjection may not, under the circumstances, have been equivalent to ratification; but, taken in connection with the other facts of which there was evidence, it was properly for consideration upon the question of ratification, which, with proper instructions, was rightly submitted to the jury.
What has been said renders it unnecessary to refer to the specifications with particularity. None of them, is, in our opinion, well founded, and therefore the judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.