Case ID: ill_17/html/0238-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Skinner, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lewis B. Parsons, Plaintiff in Error, v. Gilbert Evans, Defendant in Error.
    ERROR TO MADISON.
    Exceptions may be taken to the decision of a Circuit Court, trying a case without t'ie mterraition of a jury, but they must be taken at the time; and then error can j,e assigQg,^ not otherwise.
    This cause was tried by the Circuit Court of Madison county, Underwood, Judge, presiding, without the intervention of a jury, and judgment was rendered for the defendant in error.
    Stuart and Edwards, for Plaintiff in Error.
    J. and D. Gillespie, for Defendant in Error.
   Skinner, J.

This cause was tried by the Circuit Court by consent of parties, without the intervention of a jury, and judgment rendered against the defendant below. He appeals to this court, and assigns for error the rendition of this judgment. The bill of exceptions embodies the evidence, but fails to show that any exception was taken to the decision of the court, or that a motion was made for a new trial, overruled, and the decision of the court excepted to.

Under the statute, exceptions may be taken to decisions of the Circuit Court, where the cause is tried without the intervention of a jury; and the decisions of the court so excepted to, may be assigned for error in this court. R. S. 416, Sec. 22.

In this case, it is the finding of the court, upon the evidence, that is complained of; and to enable the party to assign error, the bill of exceptions should show that exception to such finding was taken at the time. Dickhut v. Durrell, 11 Ill. 72.

The statute gives the right, in such case, to assign error, only where the decision assigned for error was excepted to, and we have no right to dispense with this requisition.

Judgment affirmed.