FOLSOM v. BILLY

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FOLSOM v. BILLY
1920 OK 166
189 P. 188
78 Okla. 146
Case Number: 10993
Decided: 04/13/1920
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

FOLSOM et al.
v.
BILLY.

Syllabus

¶0 1. Appeal and Error--Record--Motions--Exceptions--Review.
Motions presented to the trial court, the rulings thereon, and the exceptions thereto are not properly part of the record, and can only be preserved and presented for review on appeal by incorporating same in a bill of exceptions or case-made.
2. Same--Record Proper--Motion for New Trial.
A motion for new trial and the action of the court in overruling the same being no part of the record proper, the assignment that the court erred in overruling the motion cannot be presented to this court by transcript of the record.

Error from District Court, Stephens County; Cham Jones, Judge.

Action by Watson Billy against P. W. Folsom and others for forcible entry and detainer. From judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendants bring error. Dismissed.

Sam H. Butler, for plaintiffs in error.
Bond & Kolb and T. A. Morgan, for defendant in error.

OWEN, C. J.

¶1 It appears on motion to dismiss this appeal that judgment was rendered for restitution of the premises described in the petition, and from a judgment overruling motion for new trial this appeal was prose cured by transcript, without bill of exceptions or case-made.

¶2 Motions presented to the trial court, and the rulings thereon, are not properly part of the record, and can only be preserved and presented for review on appeal by incorporating same in a bill of exceptions or case-made. Lawton Grain Co. v. Brunswig, 72 Okla. 136, 179 P. 465; Williams v. Kelly, 71 Okla. 166, 176 P. 204; Putnam v. Western Bank & Supply Co., 38 Okla. 152, 132 P. 483.

¶3 The motion for new trial and the action of the court in overruling same being no part of the record proper, the assignment that the court erred in overruling the motion cannot be presented to this court by transcript of record. Williams v. Kelly, supra.

¶4 The motion will be sustained and the appeal dismissed.

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