Case ID: cow_3/html/0358-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Curia.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Woolsey against Camp.
    A case cannot be turned verdict,Unless there be a stipeffect at the iriaI*
    The verdict being for the defendant, and a case being made presenting several questions of law, as to the decisions of the Judge at nisi prius ;
    S. A. Foot,
    on an affidavit that the defendant’s counsel omitted, by mistake, at the trial, either to take a bill of exceptions upon the points of law arising and decided there, or to request the Circuit Judge that the case might be turned into a bill of exceptions, or a special verdict; and that he was desirous to bring error, if the judgment should be against him ; moved for leave to turn the case into a bill of exceptions.
    
      J. Plait, contra.
   Curia.

This is never done, unless there is a stipulation to that effect at the trial. It is almost a matter of course for a Circuit Judge to grant leave to turn a contemplated case into a special verdict or bill of excepiions, if requested by either party, at the trial; but this should appear, by stipulation, in the case, or in some other way. A bill of exceptions, or special verdict, is a part of the business of the trial ; and if not sought for in any way there, it cannot be obtained afterwards.

Motion denied.