Case Name: O. & A. Wetmore, plaintiffs in error, vs. John Chavers, defendant
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1851-05
Citations: 9 Ga. 546
Docket Number: No. 99
Parties: O. & A. Wetmore, plaintiffs in error, vs. John Chavers, defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 546–547

Head Matter:
No. 99.
O. & A. Wetmore, plaintiffs in error, vs. John Chavers, defendant.
The brief of the evidence filed on a moto for a new trial, is not a part of the record, to be transmitted to the Supreme Court; and does not dispense with the necessity of incorporating in the bill of exceptions, a brief of the oral and copy of the written evidence.
In error, from Richmond County.
This writ of error, was- sued out to a decision on a motion for a new trial, on; the ground, that the verdict was contrary to the evidence. The’bill of exeeptions did not contain a brief of the evidence, or refer to any. In the transcript of the record, the Clerk sent up a brief of evidence, purporting to be of file in his office.
A motion was made to dismiss the writ of error, on the ground that no brief of evidence had been embodied in the bill of exceptions.
J. G. Gould, for the motion.
John Schley, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court
Nisbet, J,
delivering the opinion.
The motion to dismiss must be sustained. The 4th rule of this Court requires, that a brief of the oral, and a copy of the written evidence in the cause, be embodied in the bill of exceptions. Is there any thing in this case which can authorize an exception to the rule ? There is no evidence whatever, in the bill, and no reference to any. The brief of the evidence agreed upon by counsel, upon moving the rule for the newj trial below, comes up with the record, and therefore, it is said that the reason of the rule ceases. This would be true if the brief, which is of file below, were a part of the record which it is made the duty of the Clerk to send up. But we do not think that it is. The record which the law requires him to certify to this Court, consists of the pleadings in the case, and the orders, judgments or decrees of the Court rendered in the case, and the verdict of the Jury, if one is rendered. This brief is no more a part of the record, than the interrogatories and depositions which are of file. Moreover, the brief may be sufficient for the Court below, he being a witness to the trial. But we need all the evidence. The evidence need not be in any case, both in the bill and with the record.