Costello v. Ferrarini

BROWN, District Judge.

A her the direction of a verdict for the defendant, and within seven days therefrom, the plaintiff filed in the clerk’s office a draft bill of exceptions, which, hears lile mark “March 15, 1906.” The clerk presented this draft bill to the f.rial judge, who made thereon and signed the following indorsement: “Presented for allowance March 16, .1906.”

Whether the mere filing- of a hill of exceptions in the clerk’s office is a compliance with rule 17 of the Circuit Court we need not consider, for in this case the draft hill of exceptions, containing a written request for its…