Presley v. Jones & Oglesby

"Where a litigant has obtained, a judgment in the trial court, and it is sought to reverse such judgment, the statute requires service on the opposite party or his attorney to be made in the manner therein pointed out. Civil Code, § 6160. It is important that the adverse party or his counsel should be served, so that they may know of the exception taken to the judgment and the effort to reverse it. If service of bills of exceptions generally were permitted to be made by mailing a copy to counsel, it would doubtless frequently happen that cases would be heard in this court without any…