Guarantee Trust Life Insurance v. Hill

The defendant in error moves in this court to dismiss the writ of error on two grounds: first, because the assignment of error therein in the following language, “At the conclusion of said hearing, the Honorable Judge W. Wright Abbot overruled said motion for a new trial, and plaintiff in error appeals from such ruling and assigns error to same,” is not a “sufficient direct, or specific assignment of error on the final judgment in said case”; and, secondly, on the ground that the specification in the bill of exceptions of the portion of the record material to a clear understanding of the…