Court Opinion

ID: 6952600
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 01:33:55.286447+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:08:07.988270
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Walker delivered the opinion of the Court: Plaintiff in error insists that the judgment of the court below should be reversed, because of the refusal to give two instructions asked by him. We can see no error in refusing to give them. As asked, they were calculated to mislead the jury. The evidence shows, that the boat was sold to Musson & Gulley, and under that sale was delivered alone to Gulley ; and it would seem that the delivery was in pursuance to, and fulfillment of, the contract of purchase; and the evidence tends to show that the transfer by the deed was made in the same manner, and to fulfill the agreement. If it was transferred to him for both Musson & Culley, with their assent, and in accordance with their wishes, then there can be no doubt that the agreement was substantially and legally performed, while these instructions would require the jury to find for defendant, unless the transfer had been made to both of them. * Plaintiff in error had assumed the burden of proving that the original agreement had been abandoned, and a new sale made alone to Culley; and these instructions assume that the transfer of the boat to Culley, no difference how made, proved that fact; while, on the contrary, we have seen that the possession was delivered to Culley under the sale to Husson & Culley, and the jury were warranted in finding that the transfer was made to Culley in the same manner; unless they had been properly modified, the court did right in refusing to give them to the jury. Perceiving no error in this record, the judgment of the court below must be affirmed. Judgment affirmed.