Patterson v. Carpenter

The threshold and determinative decision in this appeal is the lack of power of a special judge — after the term — to grant any further extension of time in which to file the bill of exceptions.

Appellant Patterson sued appellee Carpenter for damages for alleged negligence. The case was filed and tried in the Lake City District of the Craighead circuit court. The terms of the Lake City District of the circuit court, as fixed by statute (§ 2832, Pope’s Digest) are the fourth Monday in February and the fourth Monday in September, in each year. This ease was tried on October 14, 1943, a day of…