109 Ga. 289 | Ga. | 1899
It appears from the record that plaintiff in error tendered a bill of exceptions to the judge within the time required by law, but the judge returned the same to his counsel for correction on May 6, 1898. It further appears that the defect in the bill of exceptions as first presented consisted in an omission therefrom of certain documentary evidence, the original of which was on file in the clerk’s office. After counsel for plaintiff in error was returned the bill of exceptions for correction, he complained to the court that he was unable to obtain the record necessary to make the correction from the clerk, and the court passed an order at once requiring the clerk to deliver the necessary record. This was sent to the court on August 18, 1898, turned over to counsel for plaintiff in error on that day, and the bill of exceptions, properly corrected, was presented to the judge on September 3,1898. The record discloses no reason whatever for this delay of over four months after the adjournment of court'before a correct bill of exceptions was presented to the judge for his certificate. It seems that an original paper which belonged on file in the clerk’s office had been introduced in evidence on the trial. When the clerk refused to allow this original to be taken from his office, it was certainly in the power of the plaintiff in error to have procured a copy thereof, and, with that, supplied the defect in his bill of exceptions. The record fails to disclose how long it was after the bill was returned to him by the judge before he applied for an order requiring the clerk to deliver up the original document. No reason whatever is presented why it was
Writ of error dismissed.