Rantt v. Hardin

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Rantt v. Hardin

2 Ky. Op. 69, 1867 Ky. LEXIS 395

DecidedNovember 23, 1867

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Rantt v. Hardin, 2 Ky. Op. 69, 1867 Ky. LEXIS 395 (Ky. Ct. App. 1867).

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Opinion op ti-ie Court by

Judge Hardin:

It does not appear that the exceptions of either party to depositions were acted on in the court below; for this reason they must be regarded ¿s having been unread.

But we perceive no sufficient ground of objection to the reading of any of the depositions excepted to by the defendant. If they were not taken at the exact place designated in the notice, and the adjournment from that place was -not such as authorized by the Code of Practice, the examiner’s certificate shows the defendant was present at the taking of the depositions. Nor does it appear to us that the court abused its discretion in overriding the defendant’s motion for a continuance.

The alleged partnership between the appellant and Hardin and John Rantt is, we think, established by a decided preponderance of the evidence. The report of the commissioner fixing the amount due the plaintiff, as agreed to by the parties, was not excepted to by the appellant, although the usual time was allowed for doing so. It seems to us the commissioner had a right to base his report on an agreed adjustment of the parties themselves, if made by them for that purpose before him; and if the report was not correct as to such agreement, or in any other particular, the defendant could have made the fact appear in the Circuit Court in the usual and proper mode.

Gudgell, for appellant. Lacey, for appellee.

Wherefore, no special error being perceived in the judgment, the same is affirmed.

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Opinion op ti-ie Court by

Judge Hardin:

It does not appear that the exceptions of either party to depositions were acted on in the court below; for this reason they must be regarded ¿s having been unread.

But we perceive no sufficient ground of objection to the reading of any of the depositions excepted to by the defendant. If they were not taken at the exact place designated in the notice, and the adjournment from that place was -not such as authorized by the Code of Practice, the examiner’s certificate shows the defendant was present at the taking of the depositions. Nor does it appear to us that the court abused its discretion in overriding the defendant’s motion for a continuance.

The alleged partnership between the appellant and Hardin and John Rantt is, we think, established by a decided preponderance of the evidence. The report of the commissioner fixing the amount due the plaintiff, as agreed to by the parties, was not excepted to by the appellant, although the usual time was allowed for doing so. It seems to us the commissioner had a right to base his report on an agreed adjustment of the parties themselves, if made by them for that purpose before him; and if the report was not correct as to such agreement, or in any other particular, the defendant could have made the fact appear in the Circuit Court in the usual and proper mode.

Gudgell, for appellant. Lacey, for appellee.

Wherefore, no special error being perceived in the judgment, the same is affirmed.

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