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5 Ill. App. 495

Hall v. Mills

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided December 11, 1879

Appellate Court of Illinois · decided 1879-12-11

<p>Practice—Amendment of bill of exceptions.—Where a bill of exceptions has been settled, signed and filed in the proper court, and the time has expired within which the same was to be filed, the judge has no power to make any change in the record in vacation. Amendments to the record under such circumstances could only be made in the court below, in term time, on notice.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently December 1886

1 state decisions

Relies on Underwood v. Hossack · Hunt v. Tinkham · Satonstall v. Canal Commissioners

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1879-12-11

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Per Curiam.

¶1Motion by appellee for leave to file additional record.

¶2Appellee presents with this motion a copy of the additional record proposed to be filed.

¶3It appears from the record filed in this cause that the final judgment was rendered on the 29th day of August, 1879, and an order was entered that the bill of exceptions was to be settled and signed in vacation within fifty days. On the 18th day of October, 1879, it being the last day of the fifty, appellant presented to the judge a bill of exceptions, which was then signed and filed in the clerk’s office on the 22d day of November, 1879.

¶4In this bill of exceptions, it would seem that an affidavit read by appellee on the hearing of the motion for a new trial was omitted.

¶5The additional record now offered contains this affidavit. But it was not presented to or signed by the judge until the first day of December, 1879.

¶6The bill of exceptions having been settled, signed and filed in the clerk’s office, and the time having expired within which it was to be done, the judge possessed no power to make any change in the record in vacation. Amendments to the record under such circumstances could only be made in the court below in term time on notice.

¶7For these reasons we cannot regard the paper now offered as a part of the record in this cause, and the motion for leave to file the same is refused.

¶8See Hunt, impl’d, etc., v. Tinkham, 21 Ill. 639; Underwood v. Hossack, 40 Ill. 98; Satonstall v. Canal Com’rs, 13 Ill. 705.

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