24 S.D. 404 | S.D. | 1909
This action was instituted to. recover damages, for the alleged breach of a contract, from Elmer Gardner as principal and the Equitable Fidelity and Title Guaranty Company, a corporation, as surety. The corporation alone appealed. After its abstract and brief and respondent’s additional abstract were filed, respondent moved to strike appellant’s purported bill of exceptions. At the same time appellant moved “the judges of this court to settle and certify the bill of exceptions * * * upon the ground that the judge of the circuit court * * * has refused to settle and certify said bill of exceptions.”
As we understand the original record to which both motions referred, a general and special verdict were returned December io, 1906, whereon judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff December 26, 1906. Time in which to move for a new trial and 'settle exceptions was extended 20 days on February 8, 1907. “Notice of motion for a new trial upon a bill of exceptions” was served March 10, 1907. On March 15, 1907, the following order was filed: “The above-entitled matter coming oh to be heard on
On October 22, 1907, upon appellant’s application for an order settling a bill of exceptions, or fixing the time in which one might be settled, an order was entered by the circuit court, which contains a detailed history of the litigation, and concludes as follows: “That no bill of exceptions has been settled up to this date. That no extension of time has been applied for nor granted, except as hereinbefore stated. That there has never been any stipulation or agreement for extension of time within which said bill of exceptions might be settled, and no waiver, express or. implied, by plaintiff’s attorneys, of any provision for the prompt and regular procedure in said action in accordance with the rules and regulations of the court and the laws of the state. That more than 10 days have elapsed since the service of plaintiff’s proposed amendments to defendants’ proposed bill of exceptions, and such proposed bill of exceptions and amendments have not been delivered to the clerk of the court for the judge, as provided by law. That more than seven months have elapsed since plaintiff’s attorneys served their proposed amendments to defendants’ proposed bill of exceptions, and that the defendants and their attorneys have utterly neglected, refused, and failed to cause a bill of exceptions to be settled as provided by law. Now, therefore, the court, having heard the proofs duly submitted and the arguments of counsel, and upon due consideration the court being fully advised in the premises, finds
With the unsettled exceptions printed, in appellant’s abstract eliminated, nothing remains except the pleadings/ verdict, and-judgment; and, as the judgment is sustained by the pleadings and verdict, it must be affirmed, appellant’s motion for a new trial having been properly overruled in the absence of any bill of exceptions or statement of the case to support it.