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21 Ark. 409

Jones v. Jones

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided July 15, 1860

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1860-07-15

Hon. William C. Bevens, Circuit Judge. If we understood the opinion of the circuit court, it was, that the court could.not notice any error that appeared on the record unless it was specially pointed out by bill of exceptions. We have always understood the law to be, that where an error appeared upon the face of the record, no bill of exceptions is required; that the office of a bill of exceptions was to bring upon the record something that did not appear upon the record.

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently September 1885

2 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1860-07-15

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Mr. Chief Justice English

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶2Elbert T. Jones applied to the probate court of Lawrence county for the allowance and classification of an account for $97 15, against the estate of Elbert Jones, deceased, whiehhad been rejected by W. C. Jones, the administrator of the estate.

¶3The administrator filed an account as a set-off, amounting to seven dollars and sixty-three cents.

¶4The case was submitted to a jury, and there was a verdict and judgment of the court in favor of the administrator, against the plaintiff, for seventy-five dollars and forty cents.

¶5The plaintiff appealed to the circuit court, where, upon inspection of the record, the judgment of the probate court was affirmed, and he appealed to this court.

¶6The judgment of the probate court was palpably erroneous on its face, and should have been reversed by the circuit court, and a trial de novo awarded.

¶7The judgment of the circuit court must be reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings.

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