Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis Railroad v. Harlan

The bill of exceptions incorporated in the record in this case, does not purport to contain all the evidence heard by the court below. The rule is too well established to be disregarded, thatwhere the bill of exceptions does not state that it contains all the evidence heard by the trial court, the Appellate Court will not be justified in looking into the record to determine whether the finding of the trial court was correct or not. Nimmo v. Kuykendall, 85 Ill. 476; James v. Dexter, 113 Ill. 654.

As to the first error assigned, that the court admitted improper evidence on the part of plaintiff,…