Moore v. Owens

Appellants have two assignments of error: One, the court committed error in refusing to charge the jury as a matter of law, to answer all the issues in favor of plaintiffs and against defendants, Two, the court committed error in charging the jury peremptorily to answer the first and third issues No. These two assignments of error are not supported by any exception anywhere in the record, not even under the assignments of error. Plaintiffs tendered to the court no prayer for instructions.

This Court has universally held that an assignment of error not supported by an exception is ineffectual.…