Stimpson v. West Chester Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
. A suggestion was made, in this case, of diminution in the record, and a motion for a certiorari to bring up the charge which the court delivered to the jury on the trial of the 'cause in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
delivered the following opinion of the court. -
The plaintiff in error in this case suggests that there is diminution in the record, in omitting the charge to the jury which was delivered at the trial by the Circuit Court, and moves for a certiorari, that it may be set out at length, and appended to the record.
So much .of the -charge of the court as was ei’cepted to-.at the trial, is .inserted in the record as it now stands; and by the 38th rulé of this court, adopted at January Term, 1832, it was ordered, that thereafter “ the. judges of the Circuit and District Courts do not allow any bill…
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