Hostetter v. Emerson

Plaintiff sued defendant before a justice for a balance of $250, claimed to be due on account of legal services. The case was tried before a justice and upon appeal in the circuit court before the judge, who gave judgment for plaintiff for $209.75, from which defendant took an appeal to this court by filing a certified copy of judgment and the allowance of the appeal.

In the abstract filed in this court there is neither a statement of the filing of a bill of exceptions in the lower court, nor that a motion for new trial was made and overruled. It is obvious, therefore, that there is nothing…