113 Ga. 18 | Ga. | 1901
The bill of exceptions in this case, after reciting the names of the parties and the trial in the court below, states “that plaintiffs introduced their evidence hereinafter specified, and closed.” Then follow, in consecutive paragraphs, allegations as to certain testimony offered in behalf of the plaintiffs, which the court refused to admit, with assignments of error upon these rulings. In like manner exception is taken to rulings of the court on the admission of certain testimony, oral and documentary, in behalf of the defendant. No attempt is made to include in the bill of exceptions a brief of the evidence offered on the trial, or to have an approved brief sent to this court as a part of the record. The judge’s certificate is not a complete verification of the recitals of fact in the bill of exceptions, but contains a qualification as to certain allegations therein made. The record sent to this court by the clerk below embraces the pleadings in the case; what appear to be literal copies of certain documents which were presumably introduced in evidence; a report of the oral evidence, certified as such by the official stenographer of the circuit, most of which is in the original dialogue form, with no attempt at consecutive' narration; and copies of several interrogatories sued out in the case. Immediately following the stenographer’s certificate to the oral evidence, and sandwiched between it and papers which purport to be a portion of the docu