Gulfport Creosoting Co. v. Morrison
Mississippi Supreme Court
Gulfport Creosoting Co. v. Morrison, 103 Miss. 730 (Miss. 1912)
60 So. 736
Smith
Gulfport Creosoting Co. v. Morrison
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
This court must try a cause on the record as made in the court below. Under section 4912 of the Code, it has power to make any order necessary to compel the production before it of a full and perfect transcript of the record, and it may, under some circumstances, examine the original of exhibits .introduced in evidence in the court below; but it has no power to appoint a commission to make a copy or model of any such exhibits, or of any object viewed by the jury in connection with the evidence.
Overruled.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Gulfport Creosoting Company v. E. M. Morrison
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- Syllabus
- Appeal and Error. Exhibits. Motion. Code 1906, section 4912. Under section 4912, Code 1906, so providing, the supreme court has the power to make any order necessary to compel the production before it of a full and perfect transcript of the record, and it may examine under some circumstances the original exhibits introduced in evidence in the court below; but it has no power to appoint a commissioner to make a copy or model of any such exhibit or of any object viewed by the jury in connection with the evidence.