Case ID: hill_5/html/0510-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      By the Court, Bronson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Goodrich vs. Downs.
    Where an order was granted by a circuit judge giving twenty days to make and serve a bill of exceptions, with a stay of proceedings in the meantime, and before the expiration of the twenty days another order was granted by the- judge directing that “ the time to make and serve a bill of exceptions be further extended thirty days,” but saying nothing about a stay of proceedings; held, that the second ordef did not operate to stay the proceedings beyond the time mentioned in the first.
    The plaintiff having been nonsuited at the trial, the circuit jttdge made an order as follows: “ Let the plaintiff have twenty days to make and serve a bill of exceptions, and in the meantime let all proceedings on the part of the defendant he stayed.” .Afterwards, and before the twenty days had expired, the judge made another order in these words: “ Let the time to make and serve a bill of exceptions be further extended thirty days.” After the first order had expired, and during the running of the last, the defendant perfected judgment, which
    S. J. Cowen, for thp plaintiff,
    now moved to set aside for irregularity,
    
      R. W. Peckham, contra.
   By the Court, Bronson, J.

The second order does not in terms extend the stay of proceedings; and I cannot say that the circuit judge intended it should do more than enlarge the time for making and serving a bill of exceptions. But the plaintiff may be relieved op terms,

Ordered accordingly.