Court Opinion

ID: 9826907
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 16:57:51.980604+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:11:25.621131
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ON Petition to Rei-iear of the Conasauga River LuMber Co.
The Conasauga River Lumber Company has filed a petition to rehear seeking an affirmance of the decree because a stipulation of counsel with respect to correspondence referred to in our original opinion was not preserved by bill of exceptions. The case of Rose v. Brown, et al., 176 Tenn., 429, 143 S. W. (2d), 303, decided by the Supreme Court on October 5, 1940, is cited in support.
In the Rose case an appeal was perfected from a decree based upon oral testimony as well as depositions and a stipulation of counsel. In this ease no oral testimony was introduced and the case was heard regularly as a chancery cause upon depositions. It is true a stipulation was filed in lieu of introducing the correspondence by deposition but this, we think, does not change the rule that depositions, exhibits and documentary evidence in a case so heard constitute a part of the record without being preserved by bill of exceptions. Code, Section 8983; Hill v. Bowers, 51 Tenn. (4 Heisk.), 272.
Some reference is made to the fact that the stipulation was never marked filed. The decree of the Chancery Court shows that it was considered without objection as a part of the record as were the letters attached to it. It is now too late to raise the question that *164the stipulation and attached correspondence never became a part of the record because not marked filed by the Clerk and Master. Gibson’s Suits in Chancery (Higgins and Crownover), sec. 179.
It results that both petitions to rehear are denied and judgment will be entered in accordance with our former opinion for the amount indicated with interest from the date of the filing of the bill.
Ailor and Portrum, JJ., concur.