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117 Mo. App. 348

Mitchell v. Robertson

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided March 5, 1906

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1906-03-05

— Eon. Samuel Davis, Acting Judge. Submitted brief on merits. 1 (1) The'bill of exceptions fails to show any “protest or objection” on the part of the plaintiff’s attorneys to the use of the language of which they now complain, or that any such language was used. (2) The bill of exceptions does not show that the defendant’s instruction numbered 2, was objected to by plaintiff, or that he saved any exceptions thereto. He is too late now to complain.

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently February 1909

2 state decisions

Relies on State v. Foster · State v. Whalen

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Affirmed · Decided 1906-03-05

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ELLISON, J.

¶1The plaintiff instituted this action by filing a statement before a justice of the peace, wherein he claimed damages for breach of warranty, that two mules sold to him by defendants were “sound and of good Avind.” The breach alleged was that the mules were not of good wind. The plaintiff recovered judgment in the justice’s court, but on appeal to the circuit court the defendants prevailed and plaintiff has brought the case here. The only matters complained of in plaintiff’s brief relate to the instructions and remarks of defendants’ counsel in the course of his argument to the jury. The abstract discloses that no exception was taken to the action taken by the court on the instructions, and they are therefore not open to consideration in this court.

¶2The remarks of counsel, of which complaint is made here, are set out in the motion for new trial, but they do not appear in the bill of exceptions presented in the abstract. The statement in a motion for new trial of something as having occurred at the trial is Nnot proper evidence that it did occur. The matter stated in the motion should also appear in the bill of exceptions. The bill of exceptions stating that a motion for new trial was filed (and setting it out) is not a statement *350that what is therein alleged is true. [State v. Whalen, 128 Mo. 467; State v. Foster, 115 Mo. 448.]

¶3The judgment is affirmed.

All concur.
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