Hess & Skinner Engineering Co. v. Turney

Summarized briefly, the question here certified by the Court of Civil Appeals is this:

Where there is a trial before the court without a jury, resulting adversely to an appellant who filed a formal motion for a new trial insufficient as an assignment of error because of its generality is he entitled upon his appeal to have considered formal assignments of error thereafter filed and duly incorporated in the record and in form sufficient to challenge the trial court’s conclusions of law and fact, an exception having been duly reserved to the judgment overruling the motion for a new trial, but…