Thornton v. . Brady

In this case, no exception or assignment of error appears, in terms or by implication, in the case stated or settled on appeal, or in the record proper. This is conceded, but on the argument the counsel for the appellants insisted that inasmuch as the statute (The Code, § 957,) provides that, “ In every case the Court (this Court) may render such sentence, judgment and decree, as, on inspection of the whole record, it shall appear to them ought, in law, to be rendered therein,” &e., it becomes the duty of this Court to scrutinize all such matters and things as may occur and be noted on the…