Case ID: ala_132/html/0573-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "TYSON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Bank of Dothan v. Wilks, et al.
    
    
      Action of Trover.
    
    [Decided February 13, 1902.]
    1. Bill of exceptions; time of signing; when reviewabte; motion for new trial. — Where a case was tried at the Fall term, 1899, and motion for a new trial entered at that term, and the motion regularly continued until the Fall term, 1900, when .it was denied, the hill of exceptions can only he looked to for the purpose of reviewing the motion, and not for the purpose of reviewing rulings of the court made upon the trial and not assigned in the motion as grounds for a new trial.
    2. Same; motion for new trial; rulings on main trial. — Where exceptions to rulings of the court on the admission or evidence and refusal of charges were not assigned as grounds of a motion for a new trial, they will not he considered in reviewing the motion for a new trial.
    Apeal from Henry Oiruit Court.
    Tried before Hon. Jno. P. Hubbard.
    Action by Alice T. Wilks and others against the Bank of Dothan for conversion of certain chattels. From a judgment for plaintiff defendant appeals.
    It. 1). CuaweorDj for appellant.
    It. H Walk Big for appellees.
   TYSON, J.

— The canse was tried at the Fall term of the court in 1899. A motion was entered for a new trial Avhich was continued regularly until the Fall term of the court, 1900, when it Avas denied. The assignments of error, saAre one, are predicated upon except-tions reserved to the rulings of the court- in the admission of eliden ce and written charges refused to the defendant. The other assignment of error relates to the overruling of the motion for a new trial. The bill of exceptions in the record can only be looked to for the purpose of reviewing the motion, and not for the purpose of reviewing the rulings of the court made upon the trial of the cause.—Ala. M. R’y Co. v. Brown, 129 Ala. 282. The exceptions reserved to rulings of the court upon the admission of evidence and the refusal of charges requested by defendant were not assigned as grounds in the motion for new trial. This being true, the trial court cannot be put in error in overruling the motion. The denying of the motion is not otherwise insisted upon in argument.

Affirmed.