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72 Ind. 398

Harsh v. Kegley

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1880

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1880-11-15

<p>New Tkial. —Newly-Discovered Evidence. — Record. —Appeal.—Supreme Court. — Where the evidence given on the trial is not in the record, the Supreme Court can not review the action of the trial court in refusing to grant a new trial for newly-discovered evidence.</p>

Relies on Clare v. State · Sanders v. Loy

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Decided 1880-11-15

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Niblack, C. J.

¶1— Action by Henry M. Kegley against Sanders Harsh and Taylor Repass, for the purchase-money of real estate.

¶2The complaint charged that the plaintiff had sold to the defendants lot No. 18 in block No. 3, in Gibson’s addition to the town of Spencer, for the sum of four hundred and seventy-five dollars ; that the plaintiff had tendered a deed to Harsh, to whom, by the terms of the contract, the deed was to be made, and that the defendants had failed and re*399fused to perform their part of the contract. The enforcement of a vendor’s lien, as a part of the judgment, was demanded. The defendants severed in their defences, and the cause was tried by the court. The court found that the defendants were indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of $240.34, and that the amount so found to be due the plaintiff ought to be decreed to be a specific lien on the lot described in the complaint.

¶3The defendants moved for a new trial, upon the ground of newly-discovered evidence, in support of one of the paragraphs of Repass’ answer; but their motion was overruled, and judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in accordance with the finding of the court.

¶4The appellants urge as a cause, and as the only cause, for a reversal of the judgment, the refusal of the court to grant a new trial for the alleged newly-discovered evidence.

¶5But the evidence given upon the trial is not in the record, and, following a well established line of decisions by this court, we' can not review the action of the court below in refusing to grant a new trial for newly-discovered evidence, where the evidence upon which the cause was decided is not in the record. Clare v. The State, 68 Ind. 17; Sanders v. Loy, 45 Ind. 229; McDaniel v. Mattingly, ante, p. 349.

¶6The newly-discovered evidence may have been merely ■cumulative, or it may have been comparatively, if not quite, immaterial, when considered in connection with the evidence which was before the court. These are matters of which •this court can only judge when the evidence given in the cause is in the record.

¶7.The judgment is affirmed, with costs and five per cent, damages.

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