Case Name: Flint v. Burnell et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1888-12-14
Citations: 116 Ind. 481
Docket Number: No. 13,438
Parties: Flint v. Burnell et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 116
Pages: 481–481

Head Matter:
No. 13,438.
Flint v. Burnell et al.
Filed Dec. 14, 1888.
Bill op Exceptions. — Long-Hand Report of Evidence.— Use of Words “Here Insert." — Practice.—Oral testimony taken by the court stenographer can not be brought into a bill of exceptions by using the words “ here insert ” in a skeleton bill.
From the Lagrange Circuit Court.
S. J. Peelle and W. L. Taylor, for appellant.
O. L. Ballou, for appellees.

Opinion:
Elliott, J.
The questions in this ease can not be decided without the evidence, and that is not properly in the record. The counsel who prepared the bill of exceptions wrote a skeleton bill, and attempted to make provision for the insertion of the oral testimony taken by the stenographer by using the words " here insert," without setting out the evidence. This course is not the proper one. At common law all evidence must be incorporated in the bill before it is signed. Irwin v. Smith, 72 Ind. 482, and cases cited pp. 488-489.
Our statute modifies the common law rule, but it does not so far change it as to enable a party to get the evidence into the record in the method adopted in this case. Wagoner v. Wilson, 108 Ind. 210; Stone v. Brown, ante, p. 78.
Judgment affirmed.