<p>1 PRINCIPAL AND SURETY: Release of Surety — Landlord and Tenant — Novation. A surety for the payment of the rent of leased premises by the lessee (the principal) is not released by showing the naked fact that some third party, and not the principal, occupied the premises, subletting not being forbidden by the lease. The surety must go further and show a novation — that the landlord had actually accepted the third party as his tenant, or had in some manner changed the obligation of the principal.</p> <p>2 TRIAL: Instructions — Objections and Exceptions — Oral Instructions —Specifying Objections. Tho fact that instructions are orally given under agreement of the parties does not release a party objecting thereto from the obligation to “specifically point out the exact grounds of objections," in the motion for new trial. (Sec. 3705-a, Code Supp., 1913.) An assignment that there was error in each and every instruction given is entirely too general.</p> <p>3 APPEAL AND ERROR:. Waiver of Error — Motion for Directed Verdict Before Evidence Closed. A defendant who moves for directed verdict in his favor at the close of plaintiff’s evidence, because of insufficiency thereof, suffers an adverse ruling, and fails to renew the motion at the close of all the evidence, even failing to raise the question in motion for new trial, waives any error in such ruling, and precludes himself on appeal from urging tho insufficiency of the evidence.</p>
Affirmed · Decided 1915-12-18
Ladd, J.
¶1The plaintiff leased to Frank Anton a lunch room on the premises described as No. 536 West Broadway in Council Bluffs for one year, beginning January 15, 1912, at a rental of $60 per month. On the same day, the defendant, Bernstein, signed Anton’s bond, conditioned that:
‘' If the said Frank Anton, his heirs or assigns, shall well and truly pay to the said Sam Johnson the above stipulated rent promptly and punctually, as provided in the lease this day executed between the parties hereto, and shall well and truly comply with all of the requirements of said lease, then *1054these presents to bo void. Otherwise to be and remain in full force and effect.”
¶32 triat • instrueand1exceptions:8 tíSÍs "specify-mg-objections. II. Some of the instructions are criticized. By agreement, they were oral; and, though they might not have been submitted to the attorneys before being given, this did llot rclieve appellant from pointing out “specifically the exact grounds” of objection thereto, in the motion for new trial. Section 2705-a, Code Supp., 1913. None other may be considered. State v. Nott, 168 Iowa 617.
¶4It is needless to add that an assignment or brief point that there “was error in each and every instruction- given,” is entirely too general. For this reason, that criticism of instructions other than above will not be considered.
¶5*10553' á^fwaiver of" error: motion for directed verdict before evidence closed.*1054III. Again, appellant urges that a verdict for defendant should have been directed. The point was not saved *1055in the trial court. At, tbe close of plaintiff’s evidence, a motion to direct a verdict for defendant was overruled. It was not renewed at the close of all the evidence, nor was the question raised in the motion for new trial. Indeed, the question of the sufficiency of the evidence was not raised in the trial court in any manner after all the evidence was before it. It cannot be raised in this court for the first time. "What we have said disposes of all the errors assigned and brief points stated. — Affirmed.
