Leadbetter

Leadbetter v. Lake

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118 Cal. 515·1897 Cal. LEXIS 809·50 P. 686
Supreme Court of CaliforniaOctober 8, 1897S. F. No. 666California345 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

McFabland, J.

Judgment went in the court below for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal from tbe judgment, bringing up only tbe judgment-roll, wbicb consists of the pleadings and the judgment. The appellants ask for a reversal upon the ground that there were no findings, and that findings were not waived. But all intendments are in support of a judgment, arid he who expects to reverse it must affirmatively show error. It has been established by a long line of decisions of this court that where the record is silent upon the subject a waiver of findings will be pr&-sumed. The fact that findings were not waived must affirmatively appear by a bill of exceptions, unless tbe judgment-roll shows it. (In re Arguello, 85 Cal. 151 , and cases there cited on page 153.)

Appellants also claim a reversal upon the ground that there was no jury trial, and that a jury was not waived. The judgment shows that the cause “came on regularly to be heard before the \ourt sitting without a jury,” and it nowhere appears that the *516 plaintiff demanded a juiy; and in snob a case the presumption is that a jury-was waived. In Montgomery v. Sayre, 91 Cal. 211 , this court say: “If the question were, did the defendant waive his…

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