Baker v. Mutual Life Insurance

R. H. WARD, Special Ci-iief Justice. This is an application for writ of error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second Supreme Judicial District. The applicant for the writ of error recovered judgment in the District Court against the defendant in error. On appeal, the Court of Civil Appeals reversed the judgment and remanded the cause. The judgment having been reversed, the question to be determined is whether this court has jurisdiction or power to grant the writ. The applicant predicates the jurisdiction of this court to grant the writ upon the following proposition, towit: “That the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals in reversing the judgment herein, upon the assignments of error, establishes the rule that the erroneous admission of evidence, when objected to by defendant, is reversible error, notwithstanding the same facts have been fully proven by defendants’ own witnesses without objections,—thereby overruling decisions of this court, of the Court of Civil Appeals, and of the court rendering the decision in this cause,” citing the eases. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed and remanded this cause because the court below admitted in evidence (the trial being had before a jury) illegal testimony of a material and substantial nature upon one of the most important issues in the case, concerning which the conflicting evidence was evenly balanced; that, as it did not appear that this improper testimony did not or could not have operated to the prejudice of appellant its admission was reversible error. We do not think the decision of the Court of Civil Appeals in any manner conflicts with or overrules any of the decisions of this court, or of the Court of Civil Appeals cited in the application for the writ of error, as contended for. We therefore are constrained to hold that this court has no jurisdiction to grant the writ of error as prayed for, and the application is dismissed. Dismissed.