Case ID: ky-op_12/html/0115-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thompson & Browning v. James Baker.
    [Abstract Kentucky Law Reporter, Vol. 4 — 983.]
    Time Allowed to File a Bill of Evidence.
    Where a motion for a new trial was made and overruled and time given until the next term of the court to file the bill of evidence, and at this term another order was made extending the time of filing until the second day of an adjourned term, it is held that such last order was unauthorized and that the appellee can not be kept in court watching the movements of his adversary for so long a time.
    APPEAL FROM PENDLETON CIRCUIT COURT.
    May 3, 1883.
   Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

The trial of this case took place at the November term, 1878, and the judgment was then rendered, and the motion for a new trial was made and time given until the next term of the court, which was in April, to file the bill of evidence.

The order then shows that a bill of evidence was tendered, but another order was made extending the time until the second day of a called or adjourned term to be held in August. This was unauthorized and the appellee could not be kept in court watching the movements of his adversary to ascertain when he would file his bill of evidence. It was not even filed at the August term but passed over until November and then filed. See Richards v. Bennett, 4 Ky. L, 890; Smith, v. Blakeman, 8 Bush (Ky.) 476. There being no bill of evidence and the question being one of fact, the judgment is

Clarke & Simon, for appellants.

L. T. Applegate, for appellee.