Campbell v. Cincinnati Southern Railway

■CHIEF JUSTICE HARGIS delivered the opinion op the court. The appellant, Hugh Campbell, sued the appellees, the trustees of the Cincinnati Southern Railway, for the sum of $231,451.78. The appellees answered, controverting the whole of appellant’s claim except $28,726, which they admitted was due him whenever he should demand it at their office with a certificate of the engineer of their rail-way that the work had been completed to his satisfaction. The record shows that the demand for the admitted sum ’had been made, and the work properly done to entitle him to that amount, for which a judgment was rendered in his sfavor. [586] ’ .The remainder of his claim, which was controverted by the appellees, was dismissed, and from that judgment he-prosecutes this appeal. After he took the appeal, an execution issued in his favor for the admitted sum of $28,726, which was, without levy, paid by the appellees to his attorney, and the execution returned satisfied. The appellees, before the hearing, move, on proper-pleadings, to dismiss the appellant’s appeal,. because of the collection of the sum so adjudged to him, on the ground that it destroys his right further to prosecute the-appeal. The motion must be denied, because no part of the judgment appealed from is satisfied or extinguished by the payment of the judgment for the sum confessed to be owing to-the appellant. The appellees paid the judgment for the sum admitted, and in no event, therefore, can that amount be reduced or again litigated in this action, according to the record now before us, even if a reversal were adjudged on the final, hearing of this cause. The authorities in support of this rule are cited in the case of Paine v. Woolley, &c., MS. opinion, December,, 1882. Motion denied.