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Title: Burr v. the Des Moines Railroad and Navigation Company
Author : United States Supreme Court
Release Date : January 01, 1863
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 69 KB

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It is very clear that a paper not signed by counsel, nor entered on the record of the court, nor made part of the record of the case by bill of exceptions, or in any other manner, cannot be considered by this court as the foundation on which it is to affirm or reverse the case. It is probable, from the language of the closing paragraph, that the parties considered it as an agreed statement of facts, on which the court below might decide the law, and on which this court would review that decision. And it is quite true that this court has decided, in the case of The United States v. Eliason,1 and in several cases since that one, that this may be done. But in order to bring such a case properly before this court, two things are essential, which are wanting in the present case.