Arnold v. Carter

OPINION

HARBISON, Justice.

A single question of practice and procedure is presented in each of these cases. Although they were tried, appealed and argued separately, the cases can appropriately be treated in a single opinion. The issue, which has arisen in these and in a number of other recent cases, is whether there is a specified number of days within which a trial judge must approve a properly filed bill of exceptions.

In the case of Arnold v. Carter, counsel for the appealing party took a transcript of the evidence with supporting exhibits directly to the Chancellor instead of filing it with…