Case Name: James Bowlan v. F. C. Lambka
Court: Illinois Appellate Court
Jurisdiction: Illinois
Decision Date: 1895-02-12
Citations: 57 Ill. App. 334
Docket Number: 
Parties: James Bowlan v. F. C. Lambka.
Judges: 
Reporter: Illinois Appellate Court Reports
Volume: 57
Pages: 334–336

Head Matter:
James Bowlan v. F. C. Lambka.
1. Records—Matters Outside of the Common Law Record—Praetice.—If a party desires to have a matter, which is outside of the record at common law, considered by the court and its judgment upon it, he must see that it is contained in a bill of exceptions.
2. Same— What is, at Common Law.—The summons and return, declaration and subsequent pleadings, verdict and judgment, make up the commdn law record. Affidavits and bills of particulars are not.
3. Same— What is Not.—Copies of bonds, accounts and other instruments sued on, affidavits filed in an action at law, bills of particulars and the like, are no part of the common law record; they must be preserved in a bill of exceptions.
Memorandum.—Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook Comity; the Hon. Frank Baker, Judge, presiding. Submitted at the October term, 1894.
Affirmed.
Opinion filed February 12, 1895.
Masterson & Haft, attorneys for appellant.
E. J. Phillips, attorney for appellee.

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Gary
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The appellee sued the appellant in assumpsit. Were we permitted to read affidavits and a bill of particulars which the clerk has copied into the transcript, but which are not in the bill of exceptions, we might conclude that the suit was to recover money which the appellee had paid as surety for the appellant, and that the appellant had no good defense to the suit; but whatever outside of the common law record, viz., the summons and return, declaration, pleadings subsequent thereto, verdict and judgment, an appellant in a case at law desires the judgment of an appellate court upon, must be contained in a bill of exceptions, or he will fail in his purpose. Hess v. Dawson, 51 Ill. App. 146; Baldwin v. McClelland, 50 Ill. App. 645.
We may not examine whether the affidavit of appellee as to claim, or the affidavit of the appellant as to his defense, was good, and therefore affirm the judgment.