Board of Commissioners v. Eperson

Action by, and judgment in favor of, the appellee against the appellant. Judgment was rendered in August, 1872, and the court then ordered, that “the counsel *276of said defendants are given until the 1st day of January, 1873, to prepare their bill of exceptions.”

The concluding part of the bill of exceptions, which is in the record, states, “And time was thereupon given to the defendant until the 1st day of January, 1873, to prepare its bill of exceptions, which is done within the time limited, and the same is sealed by the court this 31st day of December, 1872. ”

To this is appended the…