Case Name: James Rankin et al. v. Henry Sanderson
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1880-01
Citations: 35 Ohio St. 482
Docket Number: 
Parties: James Rankin et al. v. Henry Sanderson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, New Service
Volume: 35
Pages: 482–483

Head Matter:
James Rankin et al. v. Henry Sanderson.
A bill of exceptions, authorized by the act of April 12, 1858, “to relieve district courts” (S. & 0.1155), must be sealed as well as signed.
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Fayette county. Reserved in the district court.
Harrison, Olds & Marsh, for plaintiff’ in error.
Gardner & Creamer, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
By the Court.
A bill of exceptions setting out all the testimony taken under the act "to relieve district courts," etc., passed April 12, 1858 (S. & C. 1155), on the overruling of a motion for a new trial, on the ground that the judg ment was against the evidence, must be signed and sealed. The oniy authority for taking a bill of exceptions in such case, so that the question whether the judgment was against the evidence, might be reviewed by petition in error, was found in that statute w'hile in force, and by its terms the bill of exceptions must be signed and sealed. The necessity of the seal in such case is not dispensed with by sec. 294 of the code of 1853 (S. & C. 1029), which does not require a seal to bills, of exception therein authorized, as no such bill as the one herein above described was authorized by this section.
This question being thus resolved the plaintiffs in error do not desire further to prosecute this petition in error. It is therefore ordered that this cause be dismissed.