Stock Quotation Telegraph Co. v. Board of Trade

Citations

• 144 Ill. 370
• 33 N.E. 42

Syllabus

<p>1. Practice — exceptions — when taken. A plaintiff can not avail of an error in giving an instruction to the jury to find for the defendant, unless he has excepted to the instruction in the trial court. An objection to an instruction made for the first time in this court comes too late.</p> <p>2. Same — directing what the verdict shall he.. If the plaintiff fail to introduce in evidence the contract upon which the suit is brought, he can not recover, and there will be no error to instruct the jury to find for the defendant.</p> <p>8. Same — stipulation as to evidence — bill of exceptions. Parties have the right to stipulate, before the bill of exceptions is signed, what evidence was introduced before the jury, and the evidence so agreed upon may he incorporated into the bill of exceptions, and all evidence thus incorporated in the bill, when signed by the judge, will become a part of the record.</p> <p>4. Bill op exceptions — right of parties to change. Any matter embodied in the bill of exceptions under the seal of the court is a part of the record, and the parties have no right to change or add to the record of the court by stipulation, and if they do, such matters can not he regarded by this court,</p>