Branch v. Schlittler

A bill of exceptions assigning error upon a final judgment was filed in the oflice of the clerk of the superior court by delivering it to a deputy clerk, who made thereon an entry of filing on February 22, 1918. It was not filed in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court until June 4, 1919. It was then docketed with the cases of the March term, 1919. The clerk of the superior court, in transmitting the record, certified that it had not been sent up in time, because the bill of exceptions, when filed in his office by his deputy, was mislaid by the latter, the clerk himself at the time…