Gum v. Murray

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered against the appellant, Nelson Murray, and from an order which it is claimed overruled his motion for a new trial. Upon an examination of what purports to be a statement on motion for a new trial, we do not find either a motion for a new trial, or a notice of such motion. After this statement we find in the record the following order: “And on the 2d day of January, 1885, said motion coming on to *11be heard, was overruled, to which Nelson Murray duly excepted.” This order does not indicate what motion was overruled. There being no motion for a new trial,…