Cranfill v. Fidelity & Deposit Co. of Maryland

When this case was called for trial, appellants, who were .defendants below, through their counsel, announced not ready for trial, and prepared their application for a continuance or postponement of the cause to some future day of the term, which motion was by the .court overruled, to. which action of the court the defendants excepted. This objection to the action of the court was .not preserved by a bill of exceptions, however; but the record merely contains a copy of the motion for a continuance, and the judgment recites .that the motion was overruled, to which ruling of the court the…