Case Name: J. I. MASON, Doing Business as MASON & COMPANY, v. TOWN OF ANDREWS
Court: Supreme Court of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1927-06-10
Citations: 193 N.C. 854
Docket Number: 
Parties: J. I. MASON, Doing Business as MASON & COMPANY, v. TOWN OF ANDREWS.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 193
Pages: 854–855

Head Matter:
J. I. MASON, Doing Business as MASON & COMPANY, v. TOWN OF ANDREWS.
(Filed 10 June, 1927.)
Appeal and Error — Burden of Proof — Evidence—Questions and Answers.
The burden is on appellant to show error on appeal, and where he has excepted to the exclusion of evidence, he must show its nature, and that he has thereby been prejudiced.
Appeal by defendant from Harding, J., and a jury, at November Term, 1926, of Cherokee.
No error.
D. H. Tillett and D. Witherspoon for plaintiff.
Moody & Moody for defendant.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This case was here before on appeal by defendant from a judgment in favor of plaintiff and a new trial awarded defendant. Mason v. Andrews, 192 N. C., p. 135.
On the second trial in the court below, the plaintiff again obtained a judgment against the defendant, and the defendant appealed again to the Supreme Court.
Defendant made numerous exceptions and assignments of error to the admission and exclusion of evidence on the trial in the court below, and also to the charge of the court.
A great many exceptions and assignments of error made by defendant do not indicate in tbe record wbat tbe answer of tbe witnesses would have been. '
In Rawls v. Lupton, ante, 430, citing a wealth of authorities, it is said "There is nothing in the record to indicate or disclose what the answers would have been to the question propounded the witness. ¥e cannot assume that they would have been favorable to plaintiff. The burden is on the appellant to show error; therefore, the record must set forth and disclose the materiality and competency of the evidence. The record is silent. A long line of unbroken authorities, civil and criminal, support the position here taken."
From a careful perusal of the record, we do not think the errors complained of by defendant on the whole material or prejudicial, or such as would be reversible error or entitle defendant to a new trial.
In Simpson v. Tobacco Growers, 190 N. C., at p. 605, it is said: "Error will not be presumed on appeal; it must be affirmatively established. Appellant is required to show error, and he must make it appear plainly, as the presumption is against him. In re Ross, 182 N. C., 477."
The court below tried the case substantially as indicated in the former oj)inion of this Court. It was mainly an issue of fact for the jury to determine.
In law, we find
No error.