46 Neb. 288 | Neb. | 1895
J. C. Grimes brought this suit, an action in replevin, in the district court of Johnson county against James Conway. Grimes had a verdict and judgment, and Conway prosecutes to this court a proceeding in error.
The defendant in error has filed a motion to quash the bill of exceptions on the ground that the bill was not presented to and signed by the trial judge within the time required by the statute. The case was tried without a jury on the 9th day of October, 1891, and on the 14th of the same month Conway’s motion for a new trial was overruled and judgment rendered in favor of Grimes. At the same time the court gave Conway forty days from the adjournment of that term of court sine die to reduce his exceptions to writing and present them to the opposite party. Conway reduced his exceptions to writing and presented them to Grimes’ counsel on the 18th of November, 1891. On the 24th of said month counsel for Grimes returned the proposed bill of exceptions without suggestion of amendment. The record does not show when the term of court, at which the motion for a new trial was ruled upon and judgment rendered, adjourned sine die. The trial judge signed and allowed the bill of exceptions on the 24th day of September, 1892, and certifies that it was then presented to him for the first time. There is no showing in the record why the plaintiff in error delayed the presentation of this bill of exceptions to the trial judge for settlement for sueh a length of time.
Section 311, Code Civil Procedure, as it existed prior to
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