Cooper v. Nisbet

1. Where it appears that a bill of exceptions signed and certified by the trial judge, defective only in the particular hereafter referred to, has been transmitted to this court by the clerk without any entry of filing upon it, and the clerk certifies that he has no recollection that the bill of exceptions was left at his office within the time prescribed by law of filing; and where counsel for the plaintiff in error apply to this court for a mandamus nisi against the clerk, calling upon him to show cause why he should ~ not be compelled to enter the filing on the bill'of exceptions and to…