Chase v. New York Central Rail Road

By the Court, Mullett, J.

Although the attorneys for the respective parties call themselves attorneys for the appellant and attorneys for the respondent, this is not an appeal. There is nothing in the papers showing that there was any judgment or order to appeal, from, or any appeal pretended to be made. It is simply a motion for a new trial, on exceptions taken at the circuit. The judge who tried the cause, it is true, made an- order that the defendants have time to make a case, or a bill of exceptions, and that the same be heard, in the first instance, at the general term; but the papers…