Park View Hospital Co. v. Randolph Lodge No. 216, Independent Order of Odd Fellows

Citations

• 99 Kan. 488

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Demurrer, to Evidence — Properly Overruled. A judgment will not be reversed for error in overruling a demurrer to evidence where the demurring party supplies the necessary proof in the evidence introduced by him.</p> <p>2. Incorporated Lodge — Authority of Committees and Officers to Bind the Lodge. It is not error to admit in evidence against an incorporated lodge the oral statements of the members of its regularly appointed committees and of its officers, while they axe adting within their authority.</p> <p>3. Trial — When no Error to Refuse Instructions. It is not error to refuse to give instructions which do not correctly state the law, nor to refuse to give those that do correctly state the law, where they are given in other instructions substantially as requested.</p> <p>4. Same — -Instructions. An instruction may be lengthy; it may involve all the conditions of the right of a party to recover; it may set out those conditions in detail; and it may be based partly on evidence that is uncontradicted.</p> <p>5. Incorporated Lodge — Unauthorized Acts of Officers and Committees— Ratification. A lodge may ratify the unauthorized acts of its officers or properly constituted committees; and the question whether a lodge has so ratified such unauthorized acts, may be submitted to the jury under proper instructions.'</p> <p>6. Trial — Evidence—Findings. The evidence and the findings of the jury have been.examined. The findings of the jury were not contradictory to the evidence but were sustained by it.</p>