Case ID: ohio-st_40/html/0112-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Heffner v. Moyst.
    Error to the District Court of Pickaway County.
    
      P. O. Smith, Milton Morris and O. O. Hunter, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Page f Abernethy, for defendant in error.
   By the Court.

1. After overruling a motion to set aside a verdict the court made a journal entry allowing thirty days after term to prepare and present for allowance a bill of exceptions. No journal entry showed that such bill was ever prepared, presented, allowed or ordered to be made a part of the record. Meld: A reviewing court cannot consider a paper claimed to be said bill of exceptions.

2. Where defendants, sued as joint tort feasors, answer separately: H., one of them, averring that he (with persons not made defendants) committed the act complained of, that it was lawful and that his co-defendants had no part in it, it was not error to the prejudice of H. to overrule his motion for a new trial while sustaining a separate motion by the other defendants to set aside the verdict as to them.

Judgment affirmed.