Pierpoint v. Akin

The plaintiffs in error were plaintiffs below and were defeated. Motion for new trial was dispensed with by the court and time allowed for bill of exceptions. This time was extended from time to time for nearly a year, because of the sickness of the stenographer, and then plaintiffs moved for a new trial, setting up that the court reporter had been so ill as to be unable to extend his notes and is “still unable to extend said notes and there is no prospect of his being able” to do so within one year from the date of the judgment, and that except by such extension it was impossible “to prepare…