Opinion
Application No. 17491.
Decided October 15, 1930.
Application for Writ of Error — Ground of Dismissal Explained.
While reversal and remand of this cause by the Court of Civil Appeals, for error in the charge on measure of damages was unwarranted, no timely objection thereto having been presented, it was properly reversed for improper argument by counsel for plaintiff on the trial.
Application for writ of error by Castle in case of Brown Cracker Candy Company v. Castle, reversed and remanded by the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, 26 S.W.2d Series, 434.
The reversal was for error in the charge on the measure of damages, and also for improper argument by counsel for plaintiff Castle in the trial court.
J. Cleo Thompson and W. S. Gamewell, for petitioner.
No sufficient objection to the charge was presented by defendant. Roberson v. Hughes, 231 S.W. 734; M. K. T. Ry. Co. v. Maxwell, 143 S.W. 1147; Clonts v. Johnson, 294 S.W. 844; Waggoner v. Sigler Oil Co., 284 S.W. 926; Midland Natl. Bank v. Campbell, 18 S.W.2d 732; C. S. Ry. Co. v. Rowe, 224 S.W. 937; Article 2185, R. C. S., 1925; Isbell v. Lennox, 295 S.W. 920; Chisos Mining Co. v. Llanez, 298 S.W. 641. Defendant in error's bills of exception, nor any other part of the record showed that the arguments by the attorneys for plaintiff in error were not called forth by the evidence nor by the arguments, statements or remarks of the attorneys for defendant in error, but the Bills of Exception merely stated the remarks made by plaintiff in error's attorneys in their arguments. Article 2237, Subdivision 1 of 1925 R. C. S.; Kansas City M. O. Ry. Co. v. West, 149 S.W. 206-210; Travelers Insurance Co. v. Peters, 3 S.W.2d 568; Federal Life Insurance Co. v. Sweeney, 18 S.W.2d 702.
While we do not think judgment properly reversed on error in charge on measure of damages, because such objection not timely presented, yet the same was properly reversed on argument of counsel as to his knowledge of plaintiff's character.
The application for writ of error is accordingly dismissed for want of jurisdiction.