Jones v. Burch

This ease having been put on the easy docket, the plaintiff in error suggested a diminution of the record, and a certiorari for a more perfect record was awarded.

The defect consisted in the fact that the bill of *748exceptions was not signed by tbe judge, although there was an entry to the effect that at the term at which the case was tried the defendant below, who is now the plaintiff in error, had tendered his bill of exceptions, “which being signed and sealed, was ordered to be made part of the record.” The suit was tried at the September term, 1878. The clerk makes return to the certiorari…