Wade v. Gould

Opinion of the court by McAtee, J.: The assignments or error were (1) in overruling the motion for a new trial and the demurrer to the defendant’s supplemental petition; and (2) in attempting to assume jurisdiction of the subject-matter set out in the defendant’s supplemental petition; ánd (3) in excluding testimony tending to show another action pending between the same parties, and involving the same subject-matter, at the time the action was commenced; and (4) in excluding competent, relevant, and material testimony offered by the plaintiff in error; and (5) in the amount of the recovery, because there was no evidence to support the finding. Touching the assignments of error upon the filing of the supplemental petition, the special findings of fact made by the court show that the calves sued for therein were the'offspring of the four head of cows whose recovery was sought for in the original petition, and that this increase had come from the cows after the time they were placed by the plaintiff in the possession of the defendant for the purpose of pasturage. It was said in Morris v. Coburn, (Tex. Sup.) 9 S. W. 345, that “one suing to recover a cow taken by defendant, but which is and always was the property of the plaintiff, is entitled to the cow and the increase since the conversion, and in the alternative, to the value of the cow and increase at the time of judgment.” *695 And it was said in Garth v. Everett, 16 Mo. 490, that if one takes and converts a flock of -sheep, and during the pendency of a suit to recover their value they should have lambs, the lambs would be the property of the original owner. And in Talbot v. Magee, 59 Mo. App. 347, it was said that the property rights in a colt which had been foaled by the mother after a levy of an execution upon her is as much in possession as the mother is. The issue of animals follows the mother. (Newman v. Jackson, 12 Wheat. 570.) And it was said in Buckley v. Buckley, 12 Nev. 123, that in an action to recover a herd of ewe sheep, or their value, the increase of the wool subsequently shorn from the herd is a proper subject of litigation in the same action, and that as to the lambs the rights of the parties are precisely the same as to the original flock and-as to the wool. The remedy is a judgment for the value of their use, and the court should allow supplemental pleadings to be filed raising these claims. And it was said in White v. Storms, 21 Mo. App. 288, and Stewart v. Ball’s Adm’rs, 33 Mo. 156, that the law is well settled that the increase of the female of live stock belongs to the owner of the dam at the time. The only exception to this rule is where the dam may be hired temporairily for a term. The increase during the term belongs to the usufructuary. It is the function of the supplemental petition to supply the facts which may be necessary to a complete determination of the rights of the plaintiff and defendant, touching the subject-matter of the suit, upon the facts existing at the time of the rendition of the judgment, and which would vary the relief *696 to which, the plaintiff would- have been entitled at the commencement of the action; and it is in the sound discretion of the court to allow such an amendment. (Medbury v. Swan, 46 N. Y. 200; Palmer v. Murray, 18 How. Prac. 545.) The ruling of the court, therefore, upon the filing of the supplemental petition, and the admission of the facts under it, and the -rendition -of a judgment upon those facts, was correct. Upon the remainder of the assignments of error which challenge an investigation of the evidence, the attention of the court is called to the fact that the evidence is not certified here in -such manner as to justify this court in examining it with a view to a reversal of the judgment. It is averred, upon the objection to the consideration of any question arising upon the evidence, that it has not been preserved in a case-made. At the conclusion of the testimony it is stated that “both sides rest,” and that, there being no more testimony by either side, the “case closes.” Thereupon a request was made by the attorney for the defendant that the court make “findings,” upon which findings of fact and conclusions of law were made by the court, and thereafter the stenographer appended his certificate that “the foregoing is a true and correct transcript of all the testimony of witnesses, rulings of court, objections and exceptions of counsel, taken by me in shorthand in the above-entitled cause.” It has been repeatedly held that where a case is made and settled for the supreme court, and the party making it desires that it shall be shown that the case contains all the evidence that was introduced at the trial, a statement to that effect should be inserted in *697 the case itself. In settling and signing the case, the judge of the district court certified that: “Said case-made is true and contains a full and true and correct transcript and statement of all the pleadings with the indorsements thereon, and of all orders, judgments, and proceedings filed, made, rendered, and had in said case; also, that ‘Exhibit A,’ attached to said case-made, contains true and correct copies of all the pleadings, with the indorsements thereon, and all the orders, judgments, and proceedings filed, made, rendered, and had in case No. 1,657 entitled ‘Edward F. Gould v. Richard H. Wade.’ And I hereby settle, allow, certify, and sign the same as true and correct.” ■ And it was said in Bartlett v. Feeney, 11 Kan. 444, that a statement of fact not inserted in the case-made, but merely certified to by the judge at the time of signing and settling the case, would not be considered by the supreme court. And it was said in Brown v. Johnson, 14 Kan. 290, that: “The signature of the judge to a case-made or a bill of exceptions imports the truthfulness of the preceding staten1 ents in such case or bill, — nothing more; and we must look to those statements to see whether all of the testimony is preserved or not.” And in Eddy v. Weaver, 37 Kan. 540, 15 Pac. 492, the court said that: “It is the case itself, and not the certificate of the judge, which should show whether all of the evidence introduced on the trial is contained in the case or not.” And that: “Where a case is made and settled for the supreme court, and the party making it desires that it shall be shown that the case contains all the evidence that was introduced on the trial, a statement to *698 that effect should be inserted in the case itself, and not in the certificate of the judge who settles the case.” The court said, in substance, that the duty -of the judge was to see that the statements’ of fact made in the case-made were correct, before settling the same, and to see that the case spoke the truth when it was settled. This was affirmed in Insurance Co. v. Hogue, 41 Kan. 527, 21 Pac. 641; the court saying that the case must contain the recital that it contained’ all the evidence offered at the trial, and not the certificate of the judge who settles the case. (Hill v. Bank, 42 Kan. 366, 22 Pac. 324.) And in State v. Harper Co. Com’rs, 43 Kan. 196, 23 Pac. 102, it was said that: “There is no statement or showing in the case-made brought to this court that it contains all of the evidence submitted to. the judge. There is a statement to that effect in the certificate attached to the ease-made; but, as has been repeatedly held, this, is insufficient, and hence the question of whether the decision is sustained by the evidence is not before us.” Which was again affirmed in Lebold v. Bank, 51 Kan. 381, 22 Pac. 1103. This rule was thoroughly and fully adopted before our adoption of the present Code from the Civil Procedure of Kansas, and the interpretations of that court will be accepted here, and we therefore hold that the evidence is not here so certified as to justify its examination for error. After the filing of the brief of the defendant in error in this court on May 26, 1899, a motion was filed by the plaintiff in error, to-wit, on May 31, 1899, to 'amend the case-made by attaching therein, between pages 57 *699 •and 58, as amended page 57-J, -the following words: “The within and foregoing contains all the evidence given and submitted at the trial of the case in the district ■court, and all the pleadings, motions, rulings, findings of fact, and conclusions of law had, made, and submitted therein, for the reason, to-wit, that (1) because said case-made purports to and does contain all the evidence, pleadings), and findings and conclusions and rulings had and ■submitted therein; and (2) because the defendant could not be prejudiced by such amendment; and (3) in furtherance of justice.” A case-made for the supreme court cannot be amended -or supplemented in the supreme court by inserting anything therein or attaching anything thereto which did not belong to the case-made, and constitute a part thereof, when it was originally settled and signed by the .judge and attested by the clerk below. The decision of the trial judge as to the truthfulness of the case-made is conclusive and final,- — -at least, until the certified record is shown to be intentionally false, and to have been fraudulently prepared, oir that there was a want of jurisdiction in the court. (Ryland v. Coyle, 7 Okla. 226.) The judgment will be affirmed. All of the Justices concurring.