Pelham v. State Bank

4 Ark. 202

• Court: Supreme Court of Arkansas
• Decided: January 15, 1842
• Status: Published

Opinion

By the Court,

Dickinson, J.

The exceptions of the plaintiff in error came too late to be considered. As they were not reserved at the trial, they form no part of the record. There was no objection made to the amendment of the declaration, after the demurrer was sustained, nor any further steps taken by the defendant below; consequently, it is too late now to avail himself of any irregularity in this respect. The breaches in the declaration are well laid; and whether the assignment of the'writing obligatory was set out with sufficient certainty, is immaterial; for oyer was craven only of the writing, and not of the assignment; and the fact of the clerk’s copying it into the transcript does not necessarily make it form a part of the record, or entitle it to the consideration of this Court. The plaintiff below was ordered, by the Circuit Court, to pay the costs of the demurrer and amendment; and the final judgment for costs against the defendant, in that Court, must be considered for all the costs in the suit expended by the plaintiff, and cannot, as we conceive, be made to extend any further. The terms used are certainly vague and uncertain, but, as they are not in direct contradiction to the statute, we will presume them to be in conformity with it.

Judgment affirmed.