Pike v. Hartford

The reserved case transfers the defendants’ exceptions to specified paragraphs of the Court’s findings “and to other rulings made by the Court.” The exceptions themselves do not appear. While the findings excepted to can be identified although they are not numbered, it is impossible to determine what rulings were excepted to. In Nixon v. Cooper, 97 N. H. 327, 329, it was pointed out that reserved cases or bills of exception are “merely instruments by which exceptions previously taken may be presented to this court.” They do not relieve counsel of the duty of seeing that there is a record of…