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135 F. 748

Docket No. 95.

Roberts v. Bennett

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided November 16, 1904.)

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1904-11-16

<p>Bills of Exceptions—Settlement—Time—Illness of Judge.</p> <p>It is an “extraordinary circumstance,” excusing failure to have a bill of exceptions allowed and signed during the term at which judgment was rendered, though no extension of time was granted, where the trial judge was unable, because of illness, to settle the bill.</p> <p>(Ed. Note.—Eor cases in point, see vol. 21, Cent. Dig. Exceptions, Bill of, §§ 49, 72%.]</p>

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1908

3 federal appellate ·

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

““We think the delay was excused by the illness of the judge before whom the action was tried, and his consequent inability to settle the bill, and that the ‘extraordinary circumstances’ withdraw the case from the operation of the general rule.””

quoted by 1 later decision, including Dalton v. Gunnison

Relies on Koewing v. Wilder

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Motion to Dismiss or Affirm Writ of Error · Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1904-11-16

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¶1Bills of Exceptions—Settlement—Time—Illness of Judge.

¶2It is an “extraordinary circumstance,” excusing failure to have a bill of exceptions allowed and signed during the term at which judgment was rendered, though no extension of time was granted, where the trial judge was unable, because of illness, to settle the bill.

¶3(Ed. Note.—Eor cases in point, see vol. 21, Cent. Dig. Exceptions, Bill of, §§ 49, 72%.]

¶4*749In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York.

¶5Motion to Dismiss or Affirm Writ of Error.

¶6E. H. Risky, for the motion.

¶7Louis Marshall, opposed.

¶8Before WALLACE and TOWNSEND, Circuit Judges.

¶9PER CURIAM.

¶10Although the bill of exceptions was not allowed and signed during the term in which the judgment was rendered, and no extension of time beyond the term had been given by the court or the consent of the parties, we think the delay was excused by the illness of the judge before whom the action was tried, and his consequent inability to settle the bill, and that the “extraordinary circumstances” withdraw the case from the operation of the general rule. Koewing v. Wilder, 126 Fed. 472, 61 C. C. A. 312.

¶11The motion to set aside the bill of exceptions is denied.

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