Heard v. McCabe
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Baxter Circuit Court; J. B. Baker, Judge; 1. The contract was in the form of a written letter signed by appellee as set up in the first count. The second count was upon a quantum meruit, which was erroneously dismissed.
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Appeal from Baxter Circuit Court; J. B. Baker, Judge; 1. The contract was in the form of a written letter signed by appellee as set up in the first count. The second count was upon a quantum meruit, which was erroneously dismissed. Appellant found a purchaser and ap-pellee sold the timber to the purchaser furnished by appellant. 2. It was error to allow the answer to interrogatory No. 11 of C. M. Pate to he so changed as to make it show that witness said the reverse of what he did say. 3. It was error to exclude the letters from appellant to Chess-Wymond Company, and those from that company…
1Opinion of the Court
McCULLOCH, C: J.
The bill of exceptions which appears in the record in this case has heretofore been stricken out by an order of the court on the ground that it was not properly certified by the trial judge. We have before us, therefore, a case tried by a jury without the proceedings at the trial being preserved in a bill of exceptions, and we can only look to the state of the record itself to determine whether or not error was committed by the trial court.
It is urged that, notwithstanding the absence from the record of a bill of exceptions, there is error apparent on the face of the record in…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Billingsley v. AdamsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1912
- Floyd v. SkillernSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1915
- Armstrong v. LawsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1917
- Turrentine v. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1910
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- Helton v. HoweSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1924
- Laramore v. RadfordSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1918
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