Maddox v. McHattan

Responding to the assignments of error, we have searched the record in vain for the purpose of examining the exceptions noted therein to the rulings of the court. We find that plaintiff has reserved no exceptions. The only exceptions disclosed are defendant’s exceptions to rulings made upon objections interposed by Mm. This is not an equity suit, where the cause is tried de novo. Long ago, this court declared the law to be that, in an action at law, it is not error simply, but error legally excepted to, that constitutes ground for reversal: Kearney v. Snodgrass, 12 Or. 311 (7 Pac. 309). That…