Court Opinion

ID: 9825690
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 13:56:10.26173+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:41:16.600624
License: Public Domain

ON REHEARING We are asked to modify the opinion by rendering-judgment against John Schwartz and Bryan Nelson. In appellee’s complaints in the court of G. Carey, justice of the peace, it was alleged that a check for $62.63 was issued by the coal -company to Schwartz. A similar-check was issued to Nelson for $60.43. These checks were indorsed by the payees and cashed by appellee, who in her action against the bank asked in the alternative that the indorsers be made to pay. In rendering judgments the justice of the peace captioned the causes “Minnie Ihle and John Schwartz, and Minnie Ihle and 'Bryan Nelson, plaintiffs, against First National Bank at Paris, defendants.” There was the recital that “. . . after hearing testimony the court gives judgment for plaintiffs.” The bank’s affidavit for appeal shows Schwartz and Nelson to be plaintiffs and the bank “defendants” — the plural term having been used. In circuit court Schwartz and Nelson are shown as defendants. If it be assumed (and this is probably true) that the judgments of the justice of the peace were improperly written through inadvertence and were cured by the circuit court, the fact remains that judgments in circuit court were in favor of Schwartz and Nelson. It was said: “Plaintiff is entitled to recover from defendant, First National Bank, but not any sum from defendants, Schwartz and Nelson as indorsers of said checks.’'’ Again, there was the finding that “. . . defendants, Schwartz and Nelson, are not liable on their respective indorsements to the plaintiff.” While these judgments may have been erroneous, there were no appeals from the circuit court’s finding of non-liability, nor was there a motion for new trial. Unless the alleged errors were called to the trial court’s attention by appellee, there is nothing before this court for review, and we are without power, under our rules, to modify. Arkansas Democrat Co. v. Holiman, 194 Ark. 1155, 106 S. W. 2d 185.