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7 Mo. 4

Magehan v. Orme

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided May 15, 1841

Supreme Court of Missouri · decided 1841-05-15

Louis Circuit Court. 1. That the court below ought to have admitted the deposition of Joseph Dowling to be read to the jury. 2 That the replications of the defendants in error to the pleas of the plaintiff in error, not having been filed for terms after the one at which they ought to have been put in, were irregularly filed, and judgment of nonpros to have been entered up against them. See Code of 1835, page 458, sect. 9; I Chits. PI. 257; Pugh v. Robinson, 1 T. R. 118.

Decided 1841-05-15

¶1Opinion of the Court by

Napton, Judge.

¶2This was an action of assumpsit brought by the plaintiffs below .against defendant, upon the common counts. The pleas were non-assumpsit and set-off. Replications were not filed until the third term after the pleas were put in. The plaintiffs had judgment, and defendant moved for a new trial, which was overruled. He then appealed.

¶3The bill of exceptions does not preserve any of the testimony of the case, but shows that a certain deposition was offered to be read in evidence by defendant, and was objected to by plaintiffs, and rejected by the court, to which opinion of the court the defendant excepted.

¶4Only two points have been raised on this record. It is first objected, that the replications were improperly filed; and, secondly, that the deposition was improperly excluded.

¶5Our statute requires replications to be filed within thirty days of the commencement of the term at which the defendant is bound to appear. In this case the statute was not complied with; but no objection seems to have taken to the filing of the replications, and no motion was made for a judgment of non-suit against the-plaintiff. It is too late to raise the objection here.

¶6In relation to the exclusion of Dowling’s deposition, this court has nothing on the record to rebut the le^al *6tion in favor of the correctness of the action of the circuit court. It is not specified what objections were made to this deposition, nor can its relevancy or irrelevancy be ascertained, none of the testimony being preserved in the bill of exceptions.

Unless of testimony is preserved in a exceptions, court will presume that the judgment of the circuit court, in the admission or exclusion of evidence, is correct.

¶7Judgment is therefore affirmed.

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