48 Ga. App. 456 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1934
Josh Crawford and M. A. Jones, as administrator of Leola Crawford, brought a plain action of trover with bail process against the defendant in the court below for twenty bales of cotton. The trial court granted a nonsuit and the plaintiffs excepted.
There is a motion to dismiss the bill of exceptions upon the ground that the court has no jurisdiction of this case, on account of the fact that the original bill of exceptions in the case, after certification (by the trial judge), has been altered and changed by Mr. C. W. Foy, one of the attorneys of the plaintiff in error, naming him. The attorney for the plaintiff in error denies the allegation in the motion. The bill of exceptions as transmitted and filed in the clerk’s office of this court appears regular upon its face. This court has no jurisdiction to hear contradictory evidence impeaching the verity of the record from the trial court. Sweat v. Barnhill, 171 Ga. 294 (155 S. E. 18). There is a certificate of the judge of the trial court with reference to this matter, attached to the mo
The brief of evidence is largely interspersed with objections to evidence, and the rulings of the court thereon, with colloquies between the court and counsel, with questions to witnesses and the answers thereto, and with large masses of documentary evidence without any abbreviation thereof. It is apparent that no bona fide'
Judgment affirmed.