Gish v. Gish
Decision Date | 26 May 1893 |
Docket Number | 708 |
Citation | 34 N.E. 305,7 Ind.App. 104 |
Parties | GISH v. GISH |
Court | Indiana Appellate Court |
From the Cass Circuit Court.
Judgment affirmed.
R Magee and G. W. Funk, for appellant.
J. H Gould and G. R. Eldridge, for appellee.
This was an action by appellee, against appellant, on a promissory note.
Issues were joined, and the cause was submitted to a jury for trial and on verdict in favor of appellee judgment was rendered against appellant, for nine hundred and five dollars, on the 24th of February, 1892.
Several errors are assigned, but the only errors discussed are that "the court erred in overruling the appellant's motion for a new trial," and in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment.
It is a well established rule of practice, in this court, that errors which are not discussed are regarded and treated as waived. Mahoney v. Gano, 2 Ind.App. 107, 27 N.E. 315.
In a brief filed in behalf of appellee, on the 30th of December, 1892, it is earnestly contended that no question is presented, on the first error discussed, for our consideration, because the evidence is not in the record. No reply has been filed to this brief. We are, therefore, first required to determine whether the record brings before us for decision any question in regard to the merits of the controversy.
The record, on the day the judgment was rendered, recites, "and 180 days are allowed the defendant in which to file bill of exceptions."
Afterwards, on the 9th of March, an appeal bond was filed and approved.
Immediately following the bond there appears the following entry:
"Be it remembered, * * * the following proceedings were had," etc. Then come the instructions. The instructions are not preceded by any formula for the beginning of a bill of exceptions. In conclusion, however, there is the usual formal ending of an ordinary bill of exceptions. There is no record or independent entry or statement, except in the clerk's certificate, showing the filing of the instructions or bill of exceptions, but it is recited in the formal conclusion, above referred to, that the bill of exception was presented to the judge on the 8th of August, and that it was signed on the 22d, and the stamp of the clerk indicates that it was filed on the 23d of August, 1892.
Immediately following the signature of the judge thereto, and without any preliminary entry, statement, or memorandum showing the filing thereof, there is attached to and included in the transcript a bill of exceptions containing the evidence, in which it is recited in conclusion, "the foregoing being all the evidence in the above entitled cause." This bill, as it appears therein, was presented to the judge on the 8th of August, signed on the 22d, and, as shown by the file mark, was filed on the 23d of August, 1892.
The certificate of the clerk, at the conclusion of the transcript, is as follows:
[SEAL.] "C. W. FISK, Clerk."
It clearly appears in this case that neither of the bills of exceptions, so filed by appellant, has been copied by the clerk. The original bills are incorporated in the transcript and brought here as part of the record.
The course adopted, so far as the evidence in the long hand manuscript of the reporter is concerned, is the proper practice, and in this respect the evidence as taken down and transcribed by the stenographer is in bill of exceptions, No. 2. In order, however, to bring bill of exceptions, No. 1, containing the instructions, before this court, such bill should have been copied by the clerk.
ELLIOTT, C. J., in a recent case, says:
McCoy v. Able, 131 Ind. 417, 30 N.E. 528.
Under the rule above enunciated, the instructions in the case in hand are not properly in the record, and no question arising thereon can be considered or determined by us. This is so because the original bill was incorporated into the transcript.
The question remains whether the bill of exceptions containing the evidence is properly in the record, and if so, whether it contains all the evidence given on the trial of the cause.
It is insisted, among other things, that the bill of exceptions was not filed within the time fixed by the court. Conceding this to be true, it does appear in the body of the instrument, preceding the signature of the judge, that it was presented to the judge within that time, and as to this point such presentation was sufficient.
In the case of McCoy v. Able, supra, the court says: "As the law now stands the time of the filing is not of controlling importance, for the presentation of the bill to the judge, if shown in the body of the instrument, controls the question."
It is also insisted that the omission of the word "given" in the statement, and this was "all the evidence in the above entitled cause," is fatal. We can not concur with counsel on this proposition. The use of the word "given" is not indispensable or essential. The correct rule is thus stated by Judge ZOLLARS: Beatty v. O'Connor, 106 Ind. 81, 5 N.E. 880; see section 823, Elliott's App. Proced., and authorities there cited.
It is contended by counsel for appellant that, in the absence of an independent record entry showing the filing of the bill of exceptions, the bill of exceptions containing the evidence can not be considered as a part of the record on this appeal.
The decisions in this State are not, as we view them, in all respects harmonious on the question as to what is essential to show that a bill of exceptions containing the evidence is properly a part of the transcript of the record on appeal.
Judge ELLIOTT says: Elliott's App. Proced., section 805.
When time is given beyond the term for the filing of such bill of exceptions, and the bill is afterwards filed in vacation such independent record entry, however or wherever made, is of necessity an ex parte act of the clerk. Whether in such case the independent record entry shall be a vacation order-book entry, or simply a statement or memorandum, in the transcript, in substance and to the effect that the bill was filed, or whether it is essential for such formal entry or statement to precede the bill of exceptions, are questions which have not been clearly and...
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