30 Mo. App. 306 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1888
delivered the opinion of the court.
We regret that we have to dispose of this case upon a ground that does not touch the merits. Certain rules of procedure have been firmly established in this state, having been found, after long experience, necessary to preserve the integrity of judicial records and properly to present the rulings of the trial courts for review by appeal or error. One of these is, that no matter of exception to rulings made in the course of the trial can be reviewed-on appeal or error, unless brought to the attention of the reviewing court by being embodied in a bill of exceptions authenticated by the signature of the presiding judge. Bevin v. Powell, 11 Mo. App. 216, 220, and numerous cases there cited. The reason of this rule is founded in the policy of requiring the trial courts to review and correct their own errors, and •of requiring parties complaining of such errors to
Applying this principle to the record before us, we-find in it no motion for a new trial of which we can take cognizance. The bill of exceptions recites the filing of a motion for a new trial, and then what purports to be
There being no motion for new trial which we can consider, we are remitted to the consideration of errors arising on the face of the record proper. Bevin v. Powell, 11 Mo. App. 220. No such errors are assigned, and we must, therefore, affirm the judgment. Judge Rombauer concurring, it is so ordered.