Court Opinion

ID: 6716341
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Date Created: 2022-07-20 22:47:19.630561+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:31.620084
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The record shows that a final decree was rendered in this ease February 20, 1914. Motion for new trial was filed February 21, 1914, by the present plaintiff in error, who was defendant below, which motion was overruled on March 21, 1914. On April 16, 1914, a bill of exceptions was prepared and filed by the defendant below, plaintiff in error here. After objections and an extension of time this bill of exceptions was allowed and filed in the trial court, May 8, 1914. On May 11, 1914, the bill of exceptions with an additional transcript showing its filing below was filed in this court. The petition in error, original papers other than the bill of exceptions, and the original transcript, were filed in this court March 30, 1914. It will be observed that the bill of exceptions was originally filed on the 26th day after the overruling of the motion for a new trial, and was within the time prescribed by Section 11564 of the General Code; and it was finally allowed and filed in the trial court on the 48th day after the overruling of the motion for a new trial, which was within the time prescribed by law.
It is contended by defendants in error that under the provisions of Sections 32263 and 12270, General Code, as amended, a bill of exceptions must be filed in the court of appeals within seventy days, and that if filed later than that date it can not in any event be considered. This brings the court to a construction of the terms of Section 11572, General Code, which is as follows:
“A party desiring to have a final judgment or order reviewed, on error, may file his petition in error, his transcript and other papers in the proper court, without waiting to perfect a bill of exceptions, and thereupon may, if he desires, secure a stay of execution of such judgment or order, by giving the bond therefor as provided by law. Thereafter, within the time limited by law therefor, he may prepare, have allowed and signed, a bill of exceptions, which, when duly allowed and filed in the trial court, he also may file in the error proceeding; whereupon it shall be be received and considered by the reviewing court as if filed with his petition in error. ’ ’
*158The words found in the last sentence of this section, “within the time limited by law therefor,” refer to the time fixed for the original filing of the bill of exceptions in Section 11564, and for the signing and allowing of same by the trial judge, including any extension of time made by him under Sections 11565 to 11571 inclusive. And the words in the same section “which when duly allowed and filed with the trial court he may also file in the error proceeding,' ’ fix the utmost limit within which a bill of exceptions may be filed in the error proceeding as the time when it must be filed in the trial court if beyond the seventy day period fixed by Section 12270, General Code.
In this case the final allowance and filing of the bill of exceptions by the trial court, May 8, 1914, was seventy-seven days after the entry of the judgment, and if the bill of exceptions had been filed in the reviewing court on the same day that it was filed in the trial court, under the terms of Section 11572, it might be received and considered, even though it were filed seven days after the limit of time ordinarily fixed. But plaintiff, on whom the duty rested, failed to file the bill of exceptions in this court within that time, but filed it three days later, which is outside of the utmost limit allowed by law, and there is therefore no warrant for its consideration by this court.
Motion to strike it from the files will therefore be granted. And it appearing from an inspection of the .record that a bill of exceptions is necessary to show any of the errors claimed in the petition in error, the judgment of the court below must be affirmed.