Court Opinion

ID: 6996761
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 03:34:44.399578+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:09:48.113630
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Mr. Justice Waterman delivered the opinion of the Court. ■This is an appeal from the order overruling a motion for a new trial and entering judgment of $400 on a verdict. The trial and verdict having been before one judge of the Circuit Court, and the ruling on the motion for a new trial and judgment having been by another judge of that court, there is no complete bill of exceptions showing what took place at the trial of- the cause, or what showing thereof was presented to the court upon the hearing of the motion for a new trial. The burden of seeing that a record of these things was made, was upon appellant. It may be that the Circuit Court did not give appellant sufficient time in which to make to it a complete showing of what took place upon the trial of the cause; although, as more than a year had elapsed since the trial, there was ample time to have had written out a complete transcript of the proceedings at the trial; however this may be, we have net before us a complete showing of what was before the court, and upon which it overruled the motion for a new trial and entered judgment on the verdict. The judgment must therefore be affirmed. We can not grant the request of counsel to be permitted in this court to show by extraneous evidence “ what was intended by counsel for appellee as well as the appellant and by the court,” as to including in the bill of exceptions all that was before the court on the hearing of the motion for a new trial. This court passes upon records made in the court below; it has no authority to do otherwise; such records dan not be added to, diminished or explained by evidence extraneous thereto. The court below, whose action we are asked to review, speaks by its record alone. Its action is here judged by what is shown in such record and nothing else. The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed..