First Nat. Bank of Casselton v. National City Bank of Chicago

261 F. 912, 1919 U.S. App. LEXIS 1866
CourtCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
DecidedDecember 2, 1919
DocketNo. 5388
StatusPublished

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First Nat. Bank of Casselton v. National City Bank of Chicago, 261 F. 912, 1919 U.S. App. LEXIS 1866 (8th Cir. 1919).

Opinion

CARLAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an action at law tried by the court, a jury being waived in writing. The evidence was closed March 14, 1918, and the case taken under advisement. May 4, 1918, the court filed its findings of facts and conclusions of law upon which judgment was entered for the plaintiff on the same date. Prior to the decision of the court and the entry of judgment no request for findings of facts [913]*913r>r declarations of' law had been made by the defendant. We find in the record, but not incorporated in the bill of exceptions, findings of fact and conclusions of law stated to have been requested by the defendant. These findings and conclusions, however, were not filed in the court, and therefore, so far as the record shows, were not presented to the court until February 19, 1919, nearly a year after the case was decided.

This situation leaves the record the same as if the case had been tried to a jury, and no motion for a directed verdict or request to eharge had been made by the defendant. The findings of the court being like the verdict of a jury, there is nothing for us to review, except errors in the admission or rejection of evidence, and in this case, the findings being special, whether such findings support the judgment. There is no assignment of error covering these points; therefore there is nothing for us to review. Sections 649, 700, and 1011, Rev. Stat. (Comp. St. §§ 1587, 1668, 1673); U. S. v. U. S. Fidelity Co., 236 U. S. 512, 35 Sup. Ct. 298, 59 L. Ed. 696; Mason et al. v. U. S., 219 Fed. 547, 135 C. C. A. 315, and cases cited; U. S. F. Co. v. Woodson County, 145 Fed. 144, 76 C. C. A. 114; Barnsdall v. Waltemeyer, 142 Fed. 415, 73 C. C. A. 515; Mason City v. Boynton, 158 Fed. 599, 85 C. C. A. 421; C. G. W. Ry. Co. v. Minneapolis, 176 Fed. 237, 100 C. C. A. 41, 20 Ann. Cas. 1200; Chicago, etc., v. Frye, 184 Fed. 15, 106 C. C. A. 217; Chicago, etc., v. Barrett, 190 Fed. 118, 111 C. C. A. 158; Humphreys v. Cincinnati, 75 Fed. 852, 21 C. C. A. 538; Phœnix v. Dittmar, 224 Fed. 892, 140 C. C. A. 336.

Judgment affirmed.

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