Curtis v. Winston

Citations

• 186 Pa. 492
• 40 A. 786
• 1898 Pa. LEXIS 1033

Syllabus

<p>Practice, Supreme Gourt — Exception to charge — Assignments of error— Stenographers.</p> <p>There must be an exception noted to the charge, before a verdict, to a complaining party to successfully assign error thereto, after-wards. It is not necessary to specify the error at that time; but counsel must then indicate their dissent from the law as announced by the judge, by having noted an exception to the charge, and must also request, before verdict, that the charge be reduced to writing from the stenographer’s notes and filed of record, and that he does so request must appear of record. If the record does not so show, his appeal will be quashed on motion of the opposite counsel.</p>