Darelius v. C. W. Lunquist Co.
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Opinion
Action for services rendered by the plaintiff as attorney for the defendant in an action brought by him to foreclose a mechanic’s lien. There was a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant appeals from the judgment.
The only important question in the lien suit was whether a mortgage, given by the owner of the land to one Storer, the proceeds of which were used in payment of two mortgages concededly prior to the lien, was prior or subsequent. The defendant claimed it was subsequent and that the plaintiff as his attorney was at fault in not proving it to be so. The court found it to be prior.
A number of errors are assigned in rulings on evidence. Exceptions were not taken at the time nor were errors specified in the motion for a new. trial. They are not reviewable.
One ground of the motion for a new trial is the misconduct of the plaintiff. No objection was made at the time, and complaint of misconduct cannot now be made.
It is claimed that the court erred in refusing to give the plaintiff’s third, fourth and fifth instructions. We assume that the record is sufficient to raise the question.
The court found on sufficient evidence that Storer had no knowledge of the lien at the time he advanced the money which took up the prior mortgages. The third request was based upon the proposition that the plaintiff was in possession of sufficient evidence to disprove this finding if he had been in[479]*479formed of the issue. The evidence is insufficient to establish that he had. This alone prevents the refusal of the request from being error. It was perhaps objectionable for other reasons.
The fourth and fifth referred to an issue made by the defendant in his answer to the effect that the parties agreed that the mortgage should be a prior lien. This issue was not litigated, there was no finding upon it, and in this action it is immaterial.
There is no claim that the evidence does not sustain the verdict.
Judgment affirmeed.
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