Opinion

Cairns v. Daniel

  • 16 Ala. App. 218
  • 77 So. 56
  • 1917 Ala. App. LEXIS 266
Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
Filed
Jun 12, 1917
Status
Published
Author
Samford
On the bench
Samford
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 12.2%

The opinion

*219 SAMFORD, J.

[1] There was but one count in the complaint, in the following words:

“Plaintiff claims of the defendant the sum of $500, due by five notes, each of them made by him on the 30th day of March, 3911, and each payable on November 1,1911, with interest thereon. Said notes were payable to G. W. Brown, but are now the property of the estate of said F. B. Daniel, deceased.”.

This count was demurred to, and the demurrers were overruled. The count was sufficient to meet the objections raised. Clark v. Moses, 50 Ala. 326 ; Morris v. Poillon, 50 Ala. 403 . The case of Dreher & Co. v. National Surety Co., 174 Ala. 490 , 57 South. 34 , and other citations in appellant’s brief do not change this rule. The defendant then pleaded the general issue.

To prove the complaint the plaintiff introduced in evidence five conditional obligations, in the following words and figures, to wit:

“$100.00. Birmingham, Ala., March 30, 1911.

“Nov. 1, 1911, after date, I promise to pay to the order of O. W. Brown one hundred dollars, providing the building on the N. W. Cor. of 3rd Ave. & 17 St. is completed and turned over by the said O. W. Brown to the undersigned on or before 30 days from date value received. Thomas O. Cairns.”

To the introduction of these conditional obligations the defendant duly and legally reserved exception. The instruments should have been excluded. The variance between the notes sued on and the conditional obligations introduced was fatal. It therefore follows, as there was hut one count, and the foregoing were the only notes offered, that the affirmative charge, as requested by the defendant, should have been given.

For the errors pointed out, the judgment is reversed, and the cause is remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

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