Bell v. Mahaffey

Cuyahoga Circuit Court

Bell v. Mahaffey

26 Ohio C.C. Dec. 519, 16 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 258

DecidedJune 1, 1908

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This text of 26 Ohio C.C. Dec. 519 (Bell v. Mahaffey) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Cuyahoga Circuit Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Bell v. Mahaffey, 26 Ohio C.C. Dec. 519, 16 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 258 (Ohio Super. Ct. 1908).

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WINCH, J.

Plaintiff in error sued defendant in error before a justice of the peace for “breach of warranty to pay incumbrances” and had judgment. Defendant in error thereupon filed a petition in error in the common pleas court to reverse said judgment, alleging that the justice was without jurisdiction in the ease because it drew in question the title to real estate.

There was no bill of exceptions filed with the petition in error, and, as the bill of particulars filed in the justice’s court does not disclose whether the warranty sued upon was for the payment of incumbrances upon real or personal property, the only question now for consideration is whether the fact that it was with regard to real estate could be brought before the common pleas court by an allegation to that effect in the petition in error and the introduction of evidence in the common pleas court to sustain that allegation of the petition in error.

The common pleas court held that such allegation in the petition in error was proper, received evidence thereunder, and reversed the judgment of the justice of the peace. In this we think the common pleas court erred.

While it is true that Section 6709 R. S. (See. 12247 to 12249 G. G.), regulating proceedings in error from the common pleas court to the circuit court provides that the circuit court may reverse the common pleas court “for errors appearing upon the record,” and Sec. 6708 (Sec. 12241 G-. 0.), regulating error to the common pleas court from a probate court, justice of the peace, or any other tribunal, board, or officer exercising judicial functions, and inferior to the court of common pleas, omits the words quoted, still the Supreme Court- has not deemed the omission of said words significant, for it held, in the case of Roberts v. [521]*521Roberts, 61 Ohio St. 96 [55 N. E. Rep. 411], a case carried into the common pleas court by petition in error from the judgment of the probate court, that “Nothing can be added to or taken from a record by averment in a petition in error, and extrinsic facts pleaded in such a petition do not form any part of the record sought to be reversed.”

Most assuredly this rule should have been adhered to by the common pleas court in the case at bar. There being no record of the evidence introduced before the justice of the peace, it is quite possible that he received evidence showing that the warranty was made in the sale of personal property and none tending to show that it was with regard to real estate. If he did, he committed no error in entertaining jurisdiction of the case and so should not be reversed because of other or stronger evidence produced for the first time before the reviewing court. In this respect a petition in error differs from a bill in equity, and because the common pleas court disregarded this distinction its judgment is reversed and the judgment of the justice of the peace is affirmed.

Marvin and Henry, JJ., concur.

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WINCH, J.

Plaintiff in error sued defendant in error before a justice of the peace for “breach of warranty to pay incumbrances” and had judgment. Defendant in error thereupon filed a petition in error in the common pleas court to reverse said judgment, alleging that the justice was without jurisdiction in the ease because it drew in question the title to real estate.

There was no bill of exceptions filed with the petition in error, and, as the bill of particulars filed in the justice’s court does not disclose whether the warranty sued upon was for the payment of incumbrances upon real or personal property, the only question now for consideration is whether the fact that it was with regard to real estate could be brought before the common pleas court by an allegation to that effect in the petition in error and the introduction of evidence in the common pleas court to sustain that allegation of the petition in error.

The common pleas court held that such allegation in the petition in error was proper, received evidence thereunder, and reversed the judgment of the justice of the peace. In this we think the common pleas court erred.

While it is true that Section 6709 R. S. (See. 12247 to 12249 G. G.), regulating proceedings in error from the common pleas court to the circuit court provides that the circuit court may reverse the common pleas court “for errors appearing upon the record,” and Sec. 6708 (Sec. 12241 G-. 0.), regulating error to the common pleas court from a probate court, justice of the peace, or any other tribunal, board, or officer exercising judicial functions, and inferior to the court of common pleas, omits the words quoted, still the Supreme Court- has not deemed the omission of said words significant, for it held, in the case of Roberts v. [521]*521Roberts, 61 Ohio St. 96 [55 N. E. Rep. 411], a case carried into the common pleas court by petition in error from the judgment of the probate court, that “Nothing can be added to or taken from a record by averment in a petition in error, and extrinsic facts pleaded in such a petition do not form any part of the record sought to be reversed.”

Most assuredly this rule should have been adhered to by the common pleas court in the case at bar. There being no record of the evidence introduced before the justice of the peace, it is quite possible that he received evidence showing that the warranty was made in the sale of personal property and none tending to show that it was with regard to real estate. If he did, he committed no error in entertaining jurisdiction of the case and so should not be reversed because of other or stronger evidence produced for the first time before the reviewing court. In this respect a petition in error differs from a bill in equity, and because the common pleas court disregarded this distinction its judgment is reversed and the judgment of the justice of the peace is affirmed.

Marvin and Henry, JJ., concur.

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26 Ohio C.C. Dec. 519, 16 Ohio C.C. (n.s.) 258, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/bell-v-mahaffey-ohcirctcuyahoga-1908.