Case Name: ROBERTS CONE MFG. CO. et al. v. BRUCKMAN et al.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1919-02-10
Citations: 255 F. 957
Docket Number: No. 5310
Parties: ROBERTS CONE MFG. CO. et al. v. BRUCKMAN et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 255
Pages: 957–958

Head Matter:
ROBERTS CONE MFG. CO. et al. v. BRUCKMAN et al.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.
February 10, 1919.)
No. 5310.
1. Appeal and Ebbob <§=j671(1) — Review—Questions Peesented fob Review.
Only errors that properly appear on the record in the appellate court are reviewable.
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Where appellants pointed out no place in the record before the Circuit Court of Appeals where the terms of their special appearance and objections to the District Court’s jurisdiction were set forth, and the record showed no motion by appellants in the District Court to transfer the case to the law side, or objection or exception to the ruling thereon, their motion to direct the court below to reverse its dfecree and transfer the case to the law side should be denied.
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r Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri; Joseph W. Woodrough, Judge.
Bill by Frederick A. Bruckman and others against the Roberts Cone Manufacturing Company and others. Decree for complainants, and defendants’ motion to direct the court below to reverse its decree and transfer the case to the law side of the court was denied. On motion for rehearing of the motion to direct the court below to reverse its decree, etc.
Motion for rehearing denied.
Toulmin & Toulmin, of Dayton, Ohio, and Culver & Philip, of St. Joseph, Mo. (H. A. Toulmin, of Dayton, Ohio, of counsel), for appellants.
Albert E. Dieterichj of Washington, D. C., for appellees.
Before SANBORN, Circuit Judge, and TRIEBER, District Judge.

Opinion:
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The motion to direct the court below to reverse its decree and transfer this case to the law side of that court was denied, because the record did not disclose that a proper motion or objection or exception to a ruling of the District Court on the subject was made in that court, and it was too late to make such objection or motion in this court. The motion to direct the District Court to reverse its decree and to transfer this case to the law side of the court was submitted to this court on printed briefs, in which no specification or reference to any part of the record before this court was made, wherein the facts appeared that the appellants had made a motion in the District Court to transfer this case to the law side of that court, or had made any objection to the trial of this case in equity in that court, on the ground that it was triable at law only, or that the court had overruled any such objection or motion, or that any exception had ever been taken in that court to any such ruling therein. The appellees, in their answering brief on the motion to direct the reversal, asserted that at no time during the trial below did the appellants object to the jurisdiction of the District Court in equity or move for a jury trial, or for a transfer of the case to the law side. The appellants made no denial of that assertion. This court did not discover in the records here any recital of such an objection or motion, or of any ruling of the District Court thereon, or of any exception to such a ruling, and the defendants have not now, in their motion for a rehearing or in their argument upon it, pointed out any place in the record in this court where such a motion or objection or ruling or exception appears. They allege in their printed argument for rehearing that they made a special appearance, under which they could raise any questions which they desired without consent to the jurisdiction of the court below, and that at that time they raised the question of the District Court's jurisdiction in equity by oral argument and written brief; but they point out no place in the record before this court where the terms of such special appearance, the objections specified therein, the motion to transfer to the law side, or the argument or written brief to which they refer, are set forth. Hence none of these can be considered, for those errors that properly appear upon the record in this court, and those only, are reviewable here.
The transcript of the record in this case has not been prepared and printed in accordance with the rules in equity and the rules of this court. Rule 75 in equity (198 Red. xl, 1 IS C. C. A. xl); rule 23, Circuit Court of Appeals (188 Red. xv, 109 C. C. A. xv).
The motion to direct the District Court to reverse its decree and to transfer this case to the law side of the court was an attempt to secure a decision upon one of many specifications of error before the transcript was properly prepared or printed, and thereby to evade the rules and to try this case in this court piecemeal.
Let the motion for rehearing be denied.