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14 Neb. 262

Galley v. Knapp

Nebraska Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1883

Nebraska Supreme Court · decided 1883-01-15

<p>1. Practice in Supreme Court. Every ease submitted to this court for review should contain a transcript of the pleadings constituting the issue tried in the district court, otherwise the judgment of the court below will be affirmed.</p> <p>2. Trial: answer or witnesses : objection. When upon a trial a question is put to a witness and answered, although the question or answer, or both, may he afterwards objected to by the opposite party, and the objection sustained by the court, unless such answer be suppressed or withdrawn from the jury by the court, by order or instruction, such answer may be considered by the jury, and, after verdict, will be presumed to have been properly considered by them.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1961

2 state decisions

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Decided 1883-01-15

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Cobb, J.

¶1This case was submitted to the court without either printed briefs or oral arguments. Upon examination of the record we find no pleadings.

¶2The errors assigned, other than those which are merely formal, are,

¶31st. The court erred in ruling out the evidence of F. A. Long, and

¶42d. The court erred in ruling out the evidence of William C. Overton.

¶5The record containing no pleadings, this court is entirely without knowledge or information as to the issue, to prove which those witnesses were called, therefore can only pre*263sume that the action of the trial court in the matter complained of was correct; but upon turning to the bill of exceptions it appears that the objection to the questions asked by the defendants in error of these witnesses was in each case made after they had fully answered. Although the objections seem to have been sustained by the court, yet no motion was made to suppress or exclude the answers from the jury, and as the record contains no instructions by the court to the jury, it must be presumed that the evidence, being before the jury, was fairly considered by them.

¶6So far as can be ascertained from an examination of the bill of exceptions, the question before the jury was whether the date of the note was altered from the 28th to the 30th, after or before its signing by tbe defendants in the court below. On that point there was a sharp conflict of testimony, so that it cannot be said that the verdict is unsustained by the evidence.

¶7For the above reasons the judgment of the district court must be affirmed.

¶8Judgment affirmed.

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