Conway v. Chinn

4 Mart. (N.S.) 491

• Court: Supreme Court of Louisiana
• Decided: May 15, 1826
• Status: Published

Opinion

Porter, J,,

delivered the opinion, of the court. That part of the application for a re-hearing, and that only, which relates to a supposed error of the court, in considering there was no statement of facts, requires to be particularly noticed.

In the opinion delivered with the judgment of this court, we stated there was no statement of facts. The certificate of the judge being made out months after the trial and decree, was regarded by us as a nullity.

The law allowed the judge to certify at any time, if the. cause was tried on written documents. It prohibited him from doing so, if parol evidence was heard. This record does not show the case was decided on written documents alone: no evidence appears on it. Whether any was given or not, we can only learn from a certificate, which cannot give us judicially, the knowledge of what trans* pi red at the trial, unless the case was tried on written documents. There is perhaps not .so much danger that the judge should forget the whole of the parol evidence as a part of it; , , , , , . , but the law has made no exception, and we can make yone. 10 Martin, 645; 3 ibid., 205 ibid., 666. Whether the Code of Practice has made any change in the law need not be inquired into, as the case was decided months before it was in force.

Watts and Lobdell for the defendant.

The re-hearing is therefore refused.