J. C. HOGANS, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,
v.
E. A. DEMPS, DEFENDANT IN ERROR
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In this ejectment action, Hogans sought to recover possession of land from Demps. The Florida Supreme Court affirmed the lower court's judgment for Demps, finding no reversible error in the referee's decision or evidentiary rulings.
The court affirmed the judgment for Demps, holding that no reversible error appears in the record. The referee's finding that the defendant was in possession by authority of the plaintiff rendered any error in excluding related testimony immaterial, and the incomplete transcript prevented consideration of whether the finding was contrary to the evidence.
“A former judgment for the plaintiff was reversed because a present right of possession in the plaintiff was not shown.”
Establishes that Hogans's first attempt failed on lack of showing present right of possession, leading to a second trial.
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Per Curiam.
— Hogans brought ejectment against Demps. A former judgment for the plaintiff was reversed because a present right of possession in the plaintiff was not shown. Demps v. Hogan, 57 Fla. 60, 48 South. Rep. 998. A second trial was before a referee and resulted in a judgment for defendant, to which plaintiff took writ of error. The transcript does not purport to contain all the evidence adduced at the trial, therefore the grounds of the motion for new trial’ that the finding is contrary to the evidence cannot be considered here. There is nothing to indicate that the finding and judgment are contrary to law.
At the trial the plaintiff offered1 testimony that he authorized his agent to put the defendant in possession of the land. The questions asked are not in the transcript. If the questions asked are not objectionable in form, the error if any in excluding-the testimony sought to be adduced, is rendered immaterial in view of the finding of the referee that the defendant is in possession of the lands by authority of the plaintiff. An offer of testimony that plaintiff was in possession of the lands claiming them as his own before the deefndant went into possession, was objected to on the grounds that it called for an opinion of the witness and that facts Avere not asked for. The objection Avas sustained. As the particular questions asked are not before us, it must be assumed that the referee excluded them because they were subject to the specific objection made to them that they called for opinion and not facts.
Testimony offered to prove that the defendant had not paid or offered to pay the plaintiff the purchase price of the land, does not appear to have been improperly excluded since no contract or promise to pay appears. All the evidence not being in the transcript to sIioav reversible errors if any, the rulings complained of are not shown to be erroneous.. See Falk v. Kimmerle, 57 Fla. 70, 49 South. Rep. 504. In the case of Goodwin v. Markwell, 37 Fla. 464, 19 South. Rep. 885, the offer was to prove the existence of a contract and a compliance with it.
No reversible error being made to appear the judgment is affirmed.
Whitfield, C. J., and Taylor, Shackleford, Cockrell and Hocker, J. J., concur.
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Crossman v. Fontainebleau Hotel Corp., 273 F.2d 720 (5th Cir. 1959)…e’s Adm’r v. Jones’s Ex’r, 1877, 16 Fla. 216; Maloy v. Boyett, 1909, 53 Fla. 956, 43 So. 243; Golson v. Boyett, 59 Fla. 510, 52 So. 141; Taylor v. Mathews, 1907, 53 Fla. 776, 44 So. 146; Demps v. Hogan, 1909, 57 Fla. 60, 48 So. 998; Hogans v. Demps, 63 Fla. 177, 58 So. 33. The considerations allowing equitable relief to a person who has taken possession and partly performed under a contract to sell land that is invalidly executed are equally applicable in a lease situation. The lessor in this case relies…
Authorities Cited
- Demps v. Hogan, 57 Fla. 60 (Fla. 1909)
- Falk v. Kimmerle, 57 Fla. 70 (Fla. 1909)
- Lizardi B. Goodwin v. Markwell, 37 Fla. 464 (Fla. 1896)