Court Opinion

ID: 9809213
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:04:03.113849+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:25:30.737282
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AlleN, J.,
dissenting: I would agree to the judgment of the Court if all the facts appearing in the record were stated in the opinion, but some are omitted, which, I think, are determinative of the appeal in favor of the defendant.
The defendant states in his petition for a recordari, which is verified and was used as an affidavit, that after the introduction of evidence by *34plaintiff and defendant, and tbe argument of counsel before the justice, the court (justice) stated “that there was no evidence before it at that time that the plaintiff ever made delivery of the said goods to the railroad company, and that it would continue the matter for the plaintiff to secure more evidence, and upon obtaining this additional evidence would give notice to the defendant at the time it would render judgment in said cause,” and it is denied specifically that notice of the rendition of the judgment was given to him, or that he had any knowledge of it.
The attorney of the defendant also files an affidavit in which he says that the statement by the defendant in his petition as to the agreement by the justice to give notice of the rendition of the judgment “is absolutely true to affiant’s own knowledge, he being present in person,” and that he “did not know that judgment had been rendered until execution was issued thereon.”
As stated by Walker, J., in LeRoy v. Saliba, at this term, “The judge granted plaintiff’s motion. He did not find any facts, nor was he requested by defendant so to do. In the absence of such special finding we must assume that the judge found such facts as were sufficient to support his ruling. This is well settled.”
Applying this rule, the judge refused to dismiss the petition for a recordari, because he found that the justice agreed to give the defendant notice of the rendition of the judgment, that he failed to do so, that the defendant relied on his promise, that the defendant did not know there was a judgment against him until execution issued, that he applied for a recordari at the next term of court after receiving notice of judgment, and in this I see no laches'or negligence.
Walker, J., concurs in dissenting opinion of AlleN, J.