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17 Mo. App. 29

Kohn v. Lucas

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided March 17, 1885

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1885-03-17

<p>1. Stockholders — Motion for Execution — Actions. — A motion for execution against a stockholder of an insolvent corporation, is not a new suit, but is merely a step in the cause in which the judgment has been obtained against the corporation.</p> <p>2. —Practice—Bills of Exceptions. — A motion for execution against a stockholder forms no part of the record, unless set out in the bill of exceptions.</p> <p>3. —The fact that the clerk of the trial court embodies in the transcript of the record motions not incorporated in the bill of exceptions does not make them a part of the record.</p>

Relies on Cheever v. Hodgson · Jefferson City v. Opel · State v. Wall

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Affirmed · Decided 1885-03-17

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Rombauer, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2That motions made in any case cannot be noticed by appellate courts, unless they are set out in the bill of exceptions, has been so frequently and uniformly decided in this state, that the point must be considered definitely settled. — State v. Wall, 15 Mo. 208; Loudon v. King, 22 Mo. 337; Corby v. Tracy, 62 Mo. 515; McCarthy v. McGinnis, 76 Mo. 345; State v. Gee, 79 Mo. 313. Nor is the appellant who thus fails to incorporate the motion in his bill Of exceptions, aided by the fact that the clerk incorporates the same in the transcript as part of the record proper; because it has been decided with equal uniformity, that a clerk cannot make anything a part of the record which he sees fit to incorporate into the transcript thereof.— United States v. Gamble, 10 Mo. 459; Christy v. Meyer, 21 Mo. 112; Blount v. Zink, 55 Mo. 455; Jefferson City v. Opel, 67 Mo. 394; Ober v. Railroad Co., 13 Mo. App. 84.

¶3A proceeding by motion for execution against a stockholder of an insolvent corporation, is in no sense the institution of an independent suit, but a-mere supplementary proceeding in aid of the execution against the corporation. Allen v. Benton, 9 Mo. App. 579; s. c. 79 Mo. 165. It was held that such proceeding being a mere “sequence, dependency, or supplemental proceeding” for enforcing the judgment against the corporation, it cannot be removed to the federal courts upon application of a non-resident stockholder, who is brought in by this motion.— Webber v. Humphreys, 5 Dill. C. C. 227. In fact, no more conclusive argument in support of this position can be adduced than the one made by appellant in this case ; that there is nothing in the statute requiring such motion to be made in writing.

¶4It must be conceded, therefore, that motions of this character stand upon the same footing as other motions made in a case, and can not be considered by appellate courts in reviewing the action of the trial court, unless *31they are made part of the record by being incorporated in the bill of exceptions. This was not done, nor is it claimed to have been done in this case. True, the motion is set out in full by the clerk in the transcript, but that fact, under numerous decisions, above quoted, covering this identical point, does not justify us in considering it as a part of the record for any purpose.

¶5The appellants contend that sufficient appears in the bill of exceptions to enable us to infer that such a motion was made and sustained, and that under the rule laid down in Insurance Co. v. Hill (12 Mo. App. 155), we are not necessarily prevented from reviewing the proceedings in this court, although the motion is not inserted in the bill of exceptions in full, provided the terms of the motion are not material.

¶6In passing upon this argument, we state that the bill of exceptions in the Hill case, while failing to set out the motion in terms, distinctly states that such a motion was made, and that all the proceedings had, were had in regard thereto, which in this case, if it appears.at all, appears as mere matter of inference and marginal annotation. The rule that the terms of a motion must be set out in the record to entitle it to be considered by appellate courts, was established both for the protection of litigants and trial courts, and while technical in its character, is salutary in its operation. Every inroad made upon it furnishes a pretext for the demand of further inroads, and every concession is claimed as a warrant for further concessions. Such a course would necessarily lead to its final abrogation. We are not prepared to follow the departure indicated in the Hill case further than a just regard for precedents necessarily compels us to do, and cannot extend it to meet the exigences of this case.

¶7The view we have herein above expressed relieves us of considering other points involved in this appeal. The judgment of the trial court will be affirmed. It is so ordered.

Judge Lewis concurs; Judge Thompson dissents.
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