37 Fla. 354 | Fla. | 1896
In each of the above styled causes appellants instituted, on the 27th of March, 1890, separate suits against the respective appellees for the purpose of enforcing alien for material alleged to have been furnished by appellants to a contractor of appellees, respectively, for the erection of buildings on land owned jointly by Henderson and Yedder in one case, and on a lot owned by Long severally in the other. The suits were at law, combining attachment proceedings against the property, and after demurrers to the original declarations were sustained, amended ones were filed to which pleas were interposed. The records proper show the proceedings in reference to the pleadings in the cases.
It appears that notice was given in each case that appellants would apply to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Johns county, on a date mentioned in July, 1891, for the issuance of commissions to take depositions of certain non-resident witnesses on interrogatories, copies of which were served with the notices, but which do not appear in the transcripts of the records. At the November term, A. I). 1891, we have bills of
It does not appear in the transcripts of the records proper before us that any final judgments were ever ■entered in the cases. It does appear by recitals in the bills of exceptions that appellants, in consequence of the rulings of the court denying to them the use of ■certain depositions in the custody of the clerk, were forced to take non-suits, and non-suits were ordered; but the records proper show no judgments of non-suit. A judgment is properly no part of the bill of exceptions, and a mere recital of the fact in the bill of exceptions that such judgment was rendered can not cure the want of the judgment in the record. Anderson vs. Presbyterian Church, 13 Fla. 592. It is not the office of a bill of exceptions to exhibit matters that belong to the record proper. Brown vs. State, 29 Fla. 543, 10 South. Rep. 736; Lovett vs. State, 29 Fla. 356, 11
Judgments will be entered in each case dismissing-the appeal.