Cooley v. U.S. Savings & Loan Co.
Decision Date | 19 December 1901 |
Court | Alabama Supreme Court |
Parties | COOLEY v. UNITED STATES SAVINGS & LOAN CO. [1] |
Appeal from circuit court, Jefferson county; A. A. Coleman, Judge.
Action between the United States Savings & Loan Company and John L Cooley. From a judgment in favor of the loan company, Cooley appeals. Affirmed.
J. G Crews and Geo. A. Evans, for appellant.
White & Howze, for appellee.
A motion here made to strike the bill of exceptions from the record is based on the following facts appearing in the transcript: The case was tried at the spring term, 1900, of the circuit court of Jefferson county. Orders of court were made for extending time for signing a bill of exceptions, the last of which orders bears date as of July 23, 1900, and purports to extend the time 30 days from that date. By a writing dated July 27, 1900, counsel for the parties respectively, agreed to extend the time for signing to October 1, 1900. On October 1, 1900, the court made another order, purporting to extend time to November 15, 1900, and again on the last-named day it made an order purporting to further extend time for 30 days. The bill of exceptions was signed on November 24, 1900. The time fixed by law for beginning the fall term of that court is the fifth Monday after the third Monday in August. Practice Rule 30 (Code, p 1200) is as follows: "In all circuit and inferior courts of common-law jurisdiction, bills of exception may be signed by the presiding judge at any time during the term at which the trial or proceeding is had, or, by written consent of the parties, or their counsel, filed in the cause, at any time before the next succeeding term of such court, and not afterwards." The latter clause of this rule is prohibitory. Under it the agreement of counsel was ineffective to extend the time for signing the bill of exceptions beyond the beginning of the fall term of court. Thereafter the agreement was functus officio, the extension was cut off, and the court was without power to revive it at a later day. The statute empowers the judge in vacation to make extensions, but it intends his action shall be taken before expiration of the time previously fixed, so as to preserve continuity of the period during which there could have been a proper signing. This construction is as well applicable to section 619 of the Code as to the former statute, which confined his authority in vacation to...
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