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cQurt is reversed, the verdict set· aside, and the case remitted to that court for further proceedings in accordance with law; the plaintiff in error to recover of the defendant in error its costs in this court.
THALHEIM et at v. ANDERSON. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. No. 729 PARTNERSHIP-PLEADING-CREDITS SHOWN BY BILT, OF PARTICULARS.
December 20, 1898.)
In an action against a partnership for professional services, Including services rendered to a partner individually, liability for which is claimed to have been assumed by the partnership, the defendants, If not liable for such services, are not· entitled to credit for payments made by the partner IndlvidmUly, althotIgh such credit Is given in plalntilT's bill of particulars.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida. Thos. E. Shackelford and M. B. K. Pettingill, for plaintiff in error. Herbert L. Anderson, in pro. per. . Before PARDEE and McOORMICK, Circuit Judges, and PARLANGE, District Judge. PER CURIAM. The case below was one wherein it was Rought to recover from a partnership, and the partners in solido, for professional services rendered to the partnership, including services specially rendered to one of the partners,for which it was contended the partnership was liable by assumption; a general bill of particulars being attached to the declaration, setting forth the items for which compensation was claimed, and crediting amounts received towards payment, which credits included an assignment by one of the partnersofa judgment in his favor. The case was defended on the theory that the partnership was not liable for the services specially rendered to the individual partner, and yet that the plaintiff was so bound by his bill of particulars that the partnership and partners, while avoidingliability for the services rendered to the particular partner, should yet have credit for the items paid for such services by such partner. This contention .was variously but unsuccessfully presented during the trial by motions to strike out evidence, and by special instructions to the. jury, bills of exception being properly reserved; the trial judge being of opinion that if the partnership was not liable, through assumpsit, for the special services rendered to the individual partner, then the partnership was not entitled to credits of amounts paid by such individual partDer for special services rendered to him, although the credits as well as the services were included in the bill of particulars filed with the plaintiff's declaration. In the view taken by the trial judge we concur; and although some of the· rulings complained of, when isolated, may be subject to criticism, yet, connected as they were, no reversible error can be predicated upon them. There is also in the case a question as to whether a surety on the bond given to release the attachment sued out in the case was prop-
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erly included in the judgment rendered. This question was pre· sented to the trial judge on a motion to amend the judgment by striking out the name of the surety on the bond. His ruling thereon is fully sustained by the written reasons given by him found in the transcript, and we concur therein. On the whole case, we are of opinion that, so far as the errors com· plained of are concerned, the verdict and judgment of the court do substantial justice between the parties, and ought to be affirmed.
CLEVELAND, C., C. & ST. L. RY. 00. v. McCLINTOCK. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. No. 518. 1. MASTER AND SERVANT - ACTION BY SERVANT FOR PERSONAI, INJURIES STRUCTIONS. IN'
January 3, 1899.)
An Instruction Which, after stating that defendant, a railroad company, in employing plaintiff as a brakeman, undertook to use ordinary dlllgence In providing safe' machinery and instrumentalities to be handled by its employlis, further stated that the most efficient mode of discharging that duty In respect to cars used was to maintain a careful system of inspection, was erroneous, both as implying that defendant was bound to use the most efficient mode, which Is incorrect and inconsistent with the previous statement, and because what constitutes the most efficient mode is a question of fact. 2. TRIAL-INSTRUCTIONS-CONFORMITY TO PT.EADING.
Where plaintiff alleged his injury to have resulted from the fact that the couplers and pins on cars he was coupling were out of repair, an instruction that he might recover If he was injured in consequence of a defect in the pin, "or some apparatus provided for his use," goes beyond the cause of action alleged, and is erroneous.
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Dlinois. W. H. Dye, for plaintiff in error. S. Z. Landes, for defendant in error. Before WOODS, JENKINS, and SHOWALTER, Circuit Judges.
WOODS, Circuit Judge. This is an action for personal injury in· curred by David L. McClintock, the defendant in error, while in the service 01 the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company, plaintiff in. error, as a brakeman, on the 12th day of December, 1896, at Mt. Carmel, Ill. The declaration charges that the railroad company "did not keep its cars and machinery thereof in good repair, but, on the contrary, the couplers by which the cars are fastened together were out of repair, and were not sufficient, and the defendant, by the exercise of reasonable care, could have known of said defect; and when the plaintiff, in the careful performance of his duty as brake· man, as-aforesaid, in the yard of the defendant, with due care, and without knowledge of the condition of said machinery, was caught by and in the machinery used for coupling the said cars together, because the said couplers and the pin so used to couple the. said cars together were then out of repair, thereby injuring the plaintiff, and then and there,