247 F. 137 | S.D.N.Y. | 1917
This is a motion for an order to extend defendant’s time to settle and file a bill of exceptions to August 31, 1917, and also for an order settling said bill nunc pro tunc as of the date within 90 days from April 27, 1917. The judgment ivas entered against the defendant on the. last-named date, and the term expired under the local rule in this, district on the 27th day of July last. While the time for the allowance of the writ of error has not expired, the time to settle the bill of exceptions and the term have expired.
1 think it is settled by the decisions of the Supreme Court, as well as by the ruling of the Circuit Court of Appeals of this circuit, that a hill of exceptions cannot be settled after the term has expired without an express order of the court made during the term, or consent of the parties, save in very extraordinary circumstances. The absence or inability of the judge to sign the bill of exceptions has been regarded as such a circumstance. Here the failure to settle the hill of exceptions was doubtless due to a misunderstanding of the rule. No order was made like that of Judge Lacombe in the case of Talbot v. Press Publishing Co. (C. C.) 80 Fed. 567, or the declaration of the trial judge referred to in the case of Koewing v. Wilder, 126 Fed. 472, 61 C. C. A. 312, for the extension of time to settle the,bill of excep
The motion is denied.