119 Ind. 479 | Ind. | 1889
Lead Opinion
The appellant’s complaint is founded on a promissory note and the mortgage securing its payment executed to the appellant by Mary P. Landes and Chris
It is quite clear that the trial court did not err in overruling the appellant’s motion for judgment against Landes and Landes on the pleadings. Until the issue made between the appellees Lane and Lane and- the appellant was determined no judgment could be rendei’ed, because it could zzot be adjudged to whom the money should be paid. But, aside from this consideration, the answer of Landes and Landes is good after verdict, for, conceding it to be defective in sozne particulars, the defects, if any, were such as a vez’dict would heal.
We are compelled to sustain the appellees’ contention that the evidence is not in the z’ecord. It appears that the judge signed a skeleton bill of exceptions, in which the report of the evidence was not incoz’porated, but which contained at the appz’opriate place the woi’ds “ here insert.” The stenographer’s report of the evidence can not be brought into the record in the method adopted. Wagoner v. Wilson, 108 Ind. 210; Fahlor v. State, 108 Ind. 387. The stenographer’s report of oral testimony is not a written instrument within the meaning of the code, and it is only written instruments that can be brought into a bill of exceptions by the words “ here insert.” At common law the bill was required to be perfect in all its parts befoz’e the attestation of the judge. Cincinnati, etc., R. R. Co. v. Clifford, 113 Ind. 460, and authorities cited, p. 468. The reason for this rule is that the bill, when duly attested, imports absolute verity, and to have this effect the attestation of the judge must be to a bill containing all the oral evidence. It is the signature of the judge that gives
Judgment affirmed.
Rehearing
On Petition foe a Reheabing.
We have carefully examined the record as requested in the petition for a rehearing, but can find no reason for changing our opinion. The return of the clerk to the certiorari shows that the long-hand report was not part of the bill of exceptions at the time it was signed, because the stenographer’s manuscript can not be incorporated in the record by reference and the use of the words “ here insert.” It must be incorporated in the bill before it is signed.