Jones v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad

Citations

• 157 U.S. 682
• 15 S. Ct. 719
• 39 L. Ed. 856
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2222

Syllabus

<p>The record showed that plaintiff asked six instructions, of which the court gave two, declined to give one, and declined to give the other three except as covered by the general charge. The whole charge was- contained in the bill of exceptions, which thus concluded: “To which refusal and charge of the court and the exclusion of evidence offered, and to the action of the court in refusing a new trial, plaintiff excepted and tendered this bill of exceptions, which was signed and sealed by the court and ordered to be made a part of the record in this cause.” Held, that this exception was insufficient.</p>