People v. Crane
People v. Crane
Opinion of the Court
The Code makes no provision for the settlement of a “statement on appeal.” It provides for the settlement of “a statement of the case.” But that can not he settled until after a notice of a motion for a new trial has been served. Such statement, when settled, may be used on the motion for a new trial, and afterwards on an appeal, if one be taken, from the judgment. (C. C. P., 950.)
The relator did not serve a notice of motion for a new trial, and therefore is not entitled to have “a statement of the case,” to be used on a motion for a new trial settled. And it appears that he did not prepare “a statement of the case” for that purpose. But he did prepare something which he entitled “Plaintiff’s proposed statement on appeal,” for which the Code makes no provision. And for that reason the respondent, as Judge of the Superior Court in which the original action was tried, refused to settle it. The objection, however, as we view it, is rather to the form than to the substance of the thing. If it had been entitled “Plaintiff’s bill of exceptions,” we think it clearly would have been the duty of the-
Let a peremptory writ issue as prayed.
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- PEOPLE v. A. M. CRANE, Judge, etc
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- Bill of Exceptions—Mistake in Naming—Statement—Practice.—After judgment for the defendant, the plaintiff prepared and served a document, containing the essential requisites of a bill of exceptions, but entitled “plaintiff’s proposed statement on appeal;” and the Court refused to settle the same. Held: A mistake in entitling a bill of exceptions is not a sufficient ground for refusing to settle it. Id,—Id.—Id.—There is no difference between a statement and a bill of exceptions in form or substance, except that the former follows a notice of of motion for a new trial.