People ex rel. Haley v. Blades
Appellate Court of Illinois
Original petition for mandamus. At this term of this court the petitioners filed their petition for a writ of mandamus against Franklin Blades, one of the judges of the eleventh judicial circuit, to compel him to sign a bill of exceptions.
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Original petition for mandamus. At this term of this court the petitioners filed their petition for a writ of mandamus against Franklin Blades, one of the judges of the eleventh judicial circuit, to compel him to sign a bill of exceptions. The material allegations of the petition arc that the June term, 1878, of the Iroquois County Circuit Court was held by respondent, and that in a certain cause in replevin, wherein one James W. Gaff was plaintiff and the relators were defendan ts, tried at said term, a judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendants obtained time to…
1Per curiam
Exceptions taken to the action of the court in civil causes, during the progress of a trial, ought in strictness to be preserved by tendering a bill of exceptions, at the time of the ruling of the court upon the point; but as the practice of preserving every exception by a bill, as the trial proceeds, is productive of great delay and inconvenience, the courts have sanctioned the practice, allowing a party after the conclusion of the trial, to present one bill of exceptions, wherein is embodied all the rulings of the court to which an exception was taken, at the time when the opinion of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Brownfield v. BrownfieldIllinois Supreme Court · 1871
- Goodrich v. CookIllinois Supreme Court · 1875
3Cited by1 opinion
- Parish v. HendricksonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1893