Case ID: mont_4/html/0596-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Wade, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Edward Rooney, appellant, v. Geo. H. Tong et al., respondents.
    Practice — What constitutes a judgment roll — What is ngcessary to perfect an appeal.— Merely noting an exception, without filing a bill of exceptions, does not become a part of - the judgment roll, save as to matters that the law deems excepted to, and presents no question that the court can try.
    A statement of the testimony should accompany a bill of exceptions on an appeal from a judgment of non-suit to make it effectual.
    
      Appeal from Second District, Silver Bow County.
    
    Word & Baldwin, for appellant. No brief.
    Robinson & Stapleton, for respondents.
    This is an appeal from the judgment roll, on which alone the case can be considered, and the portion of the record asked to be stricken out is no part of the judgment roll. The judgment roll is such papers only as are designated by statute. Sec. 294, subd. 2, Practice Act; Nev. & Sac. C. Co.-y. Kidd, 43 Cal. 180; Shattuck y. Hayes, 21 Cal. 51; Wait’s Practice, vol. 3, pp. 584, 715.
    There is no bill of exceptions in this case. As to what is a bill of exceptions, see People y. Toms, 38 Cal. 141; Harazthy y. Horton, 46 Cal. 546; Code Civil Procedure, secs. 281, 816; Moore v. De Valle, 28 Cal. 174.
    If the bill of exceptions is not signed by the judge, it will be 'disregarded. People v. Armstrong, 44 Cal. 327. There is no bill of exceptions in the record signed by the judge — -only an exception taken which is copied from the minutes of the clerk.
   Wade, C. J.

This is a motion to strike out portions of a transcript on appeal from a judgment of non-suit. There is no statement on appeal, no evidence contained in the record, and no specification of the particular errors upon which the appellant intends to rely. The judgment roll consists of the summons, pleadings, verdict of the jury, all bills of exception filed in the action, copies of orders sustaining or overruling demurrers and a copy of the judgment. Code, sec. 291.

On appeal from a final judgment, the appellant shall furnish the court with a transcript of the notice of appeal, undertaking on appeal, the pleadings which form the issues tried in the case, the judgment, and such other parts of the judgment roll as are necessary to explain the points relied on, and the statement, if there be one, certified to be correct. Code, sec. 125.

The motion for non-suit was granted and an exception noted, but no bill of exceptions was filed, and, if there had been, it would have presented no question to be tried unless it contained a statement of the testimony. Merely noting an exception, without filing a bill of exceptions, does not become a part of the judgment roll, except as to those matters which by the law are deemed excepted to.

Such an exception does not present a question that can be tried by this court. The only intimation of an exception save on the demurrer to the complaint is the one contained in that part of the record which is improperly before us, and which forms no part of the judgment roll.

The motion to strike out is granted.

Motion granted.