Case Name: Johnson, Plaintiff in Error, v. Hodges
Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
Jurisdiction: Missouri
Decision Date: 1877-10
Citations: 65 Mo. 589
Docket Number: 
Parties: Johnson, Plaintiff in Error, v. Hodges.
Judges: All concur.
Reporter: Missouri Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 589–590

Head Matter:
Johnson, Plaintiff in Error, v. Hodges.
Practice: bill op exceptions. This court ■will not examino into errors alleged to have occurred during the progress of the trial, where there is no bill of exceptions in the transcript; and it will not regard, as a bill of exceptions, what purports to be such and appears to be signed by the judge, but which does not appear even to have been filed; and the térm “filed,” as here used, signifies more than a mere indorsement to that effect, and denotes, more especially, an entry made by the clerk upon the record, announcing and evidencing the fact that the bill has been allowed.
Error to Dent Circuit Court.—How. V. B. Hill, Judge.
J. R. Arnold for plaintiff in error.

Opinion:
Sherwood, C. J.
Ejectment for lands in Dent county.— We are precluded from any examination into the errors alleged to have occurred during the progress 0£ ^r|a]^ as there is no hill of exceptions in the transcript. There is, indeed, what purports to be a bill of exceptions, and. it appears to be signed by a judge; but it does not appear to have ever been filed, either in term time or vacation. There is nothing, therefore, to authenticate the instrument. In order for a bill to " form a part of the record of the cause," it must be both signed and filed. (2 W. S. 1044. § 31.) " The term ' filed,' .as -above employed, has a broader signification than the mere indorsement to that effect, and comprehends more especially, in its proper interpretation, the entry made by the clerk on the record, by which the fact that the bill has been allowed is announced • and appropriately evidenced." (Fulkerson v. Houts, 55 Mo. 301.) As no error is perceived in the record proper, we affirm the judgment.
All concur.
Aeeirmed.