Johnson v. Stevens

George,- J.

When the paper purporting to be a bill of exceptions first came to the reviewing court, .the accompanying certificate was not signed by the presiding judge; and the bill of exceptions itself was not signed by plaintiff in error or his counsel, but was signed, through inadvertence, by the judge. More than thirty days since the date of the judgment complained of in the bill of exceptions had then elapsed. The clerk refused to docket the case, on the ground that the bill of exceptions, together with the certificate of the trial judge, constitutes the writ of error; and the certificate…