20 Ind. App. 664 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1898
Appellee brought this action in the lower court against appellant by a complaint in three paragraphs upon three separate promissory notes, which are described in the complaint, and copies of the same filed therewith. To this complaint appellant filed an answer containing four paragraphs, the first 'of which is a general denial, the second a plea of pay
The special findings made by the court were as follows: “(1) The court finds that on the 5th day of November, 1872, the defendant executed to the plaintiff’s intestate his note for ninety dollars; that the same was given for a valuable consideration, and has never been paid, and that there is now due on the same the sum of two hundred and nine dollars and twenty-five cents. (2) The court further finds that on the 19th day of January, 1884, the defendant executed his note to the plaintiff’s intestate for the sum of two hundred and six dollars; that the same was given for a valuable consideration, which remains unpaid, and that there is now due on the same the sum of four hundred and eighteen dollars and fifty cents of principal and interest, and fifty dollars attorney’s fees. (3) The court further finds that on the 10th day of February, 1883, the defendant executed his note to Nancy Denman for the sum of eighteen dollars; that Nancy Denman was the wife of plaintiff’s intestate, Absalom J. Denman,
Appellant in his argument for the reversal of the judgment in this cause, depends entirely on the first specification of the assignment of errors, which raises the correctness of the ruling of the lower court in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial, and all questions discussed by counsel for appellant in their brief would require for their solution the presence of the evidence. Incorporated into the transcript is what purports to be a bill of exceptions containing the evidence, but there is no entry in the record indicating that the bill of exceptions was filed with the clerk. The cases in this State have uniformly held that the record must affirmatively show the filing of the bill of exceptions in the clerk’s office, and that the recital of the filing in the bill itself is not sufficient. The simple manner in which it shall be done is also pointed out by statute. Acts 1897 p. 244. In the case of Miller, Admx., v. Evansville, etc., R. R. Co., 143 Ind. 570, it was said by Jordan, J.: “Upon an examination we find that
“An entry as recited in the transcript at the proper place, substantially as follows (to be varied to conform to the facts in each particular case) is most generally, and may be properly employed, to show the filing in vacation of the bill of exceptions and the date of filing thereof, to wit: Be it remembered that afterward, to wit: On the 30th day of October, 1895, the plaintiff (or defendant, as the case may be), filed in the clerk’s office the following bill of exceptions in words and figures as follows: The bill should then follow or appear as near as practicable, immediately after this recital. We merely suggest this in the hope that litigants. who prosecute appeals to this court will at least endeavor to see that the record is so prepared as it will enable us to consider and decide upon their merits, the questions involved.” Also see to the same effect Downey v. Head, 138 Ind. 503; Pittsburg, etc., R. W. Co. v. O’Brien, 142 Ind. 218. The question here involved