21 Tenn. App. 591 - Frierson v. Smithson’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1973
11 state decisions
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Most-quoted passages
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“"In order to make extraneous matters a part of the record, they must be examined by the trial judge, and authenticated by his signature in such manner as to make their identity certain. Parts of a bill of exceptions may be in the form of exhibits to be inserted in their proper places according to the directions given therein; but all of the bill of exceptions, whether in one or more documents, must be present and examined when it is signed by the judge, and the several papers to be copied must be so marked as exhibits that no mistake in their identity can be made, and it must not be left to the clerk, or other person, to determine what constitutes any part of the record. When extrinsic matters, which can only be made part of the record by bill of exceptions, appear in the transcript without proper authentication, they cannot be considered by an appellate court, but will be stricken out when called to its attention. Battier v. State, 114 Tenn. 563 , 86 S.W. 711 ; Railway & Light Co. v. Marlin, 117 Tenn. 698 , 99 S.W. 367 ; Wynne v. Edwards, 7 Humph. 418 , 26 Tenn. 418 , 419; Ivy v. Bain, 2 Tenn.Civ.App. 626; Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Woodward, 7 Tenn. App. 394 ; Hayes & Chunn v. Holland, 11 Tenn. App. 490." Frierson v. Smithson, 21 Tenn. App. 591 , 113 S.W.2d 778 (1937). "It is settled by repeated decisions of our Supreme Court that the contents of a bill of exceptions cannot be considered for any purpose by appellate court unless it affirmatively appears that it was ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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