Sisk v. State ex rel. Erie Stone Co.
Sisk v. State ex rel. Erie Stone Co.
Opinion of the Court
— This was an action by appellee, the Erie Stone Company, to recover upon a contractor’s bond for stone and material furnished appellants in the construction of a macadam road. The complaint in two paragraphs, answered by a general denial, a plea of payment, set-off, and a counterclaim in two paragraphs, with a reply of general denial to each affirmative paragraph of answer and to each paragraph of the counterclaim, formed the issues submitted to a jury for trial, resulting in a verdict for $8,237.94 in favor of the stone company, and judgment followed in its favor against appellants.
The overruling of appellant’s motion for a new trial is assigned as error, and is the only error assigned and not waived. The specifications relied upon to support the motion require a consideration of the evidence. The giving of certain instructions are challenged, but not on the ground that they were improper and erroneous upon any state of the evidence admissible under the issues. The instructions are here, if at all, only by a bill of exceptions. Appellee makes the point that neither the evidence nor the instructions are properly a part of the record.
It appears from the record that the jury returned its verdict into the Adams Circuit Court on May 3, 1916. On May 15,1916, appellants filed their motion and specifications for a new trial. On October 27, 1916, appellants’ motion for a new trial was overruled and the stone company was given judgment on the verdict. On that day appellants prayed an appeal to the Supreme Court,
This state of the record, as pointed out by appellee, and unchallenged by appellants, and, upon examinat-ipn,. we find to be correct, compels us to hold that neither the evidence given in the cause, nor the instructions tendered by the appellants and refused, as well as the instructions given by the court, are a part of the record. Therefore any questions depending upon the evidence, or questions pertaining to the instructions, are not presented, for the reason it clearly appears from the record that the bills of exceptions relied on by appellants were not filed within the term at which the cause was tried, nor were they filed within the time given by the
Judgment affirmed.
Note. — Reported in 123 N. E. 401.
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