Chapman v. Arnold
Chapman v. Arnold
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
This case is one of those remaining undisposed of in the late territorial supreme court ;
It cannot be doubted that the case as it now stands is in this court on error, and not by appeal. Under the territorial jurisdiction, a party could on decrees in chancery sue out a writ of error, or prosecute an appeal; and although the party seems, in the rendering of the decree in the court below, to have given notice of appeal, still we have no other evidence of his intention to appeal,- — no evidence of the usual notices served, or precept filed with the clerk to send up a transcript.
Nor do we find this case in this court hearing any evidences . of appeal, except the fact above mentioned as to notice given at the hearing below. This record, then, being a return to a writ of error so certified and attached to such writ, and errors being assigned on the same, we are not permitted to doubt that the plaintiff in error elected, of his two remedies, the proceeding by writ of error.
It may be well to suggest, that since the adoption of our state constitution, no chancery case can he removed to this court by writ of error, but by appeal only.
Limited, then, to the inspection of the record, we will proceed to examine the same as to the several errors assigned. It will he readily seen that the depositions are no part of the record, there being no bill of exceptions embodying the evidence in the record. We are bound, then, under the decision so often reiterated in this court, that no errors are to be presumed in a record, to infer that the court below had sufficient evidence to authorize the rendition of the decree. It must also he presumed that the court did not err in not dissolving the injunc
If he did not support the bill against the answer by sufficient evidence, the defendant below could have made it manifest by a bill of exceptions. The decree of the court below is therefore affirmed.
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