15 Ala. App. 463 - Hampton v. Tant’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““Neither the record proper nor the bill of exception shows any order of the court on the motion for new trial. There is a notation on the motion for new trial as follows : ‘September 4, 1915. Motion overruled. Plaintiff excepts.’ But this does not purport to be an order of the court, and, for all that appears, may have been a mere notation by the clerk of the court, or perhaps a bench note by the presiding judge, but does not rise to the dignity of an order of the court, and will not authorize a review. * * *»”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 44 Ala. App. 457 - Employers Insurance Company of Alabama v. Cross