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  "name": "JAMES WALLINGTON v. A. D. MONTGOMERY, Ex'r",
  "name_abbreviation": "Wallington v. Montgomery",
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      "JAMES WALLINGTON v. A. D. MONTGOMERY, Ex'r."
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        "text": "ByNu\u00edi, J.\nThe refusal of his Honor to pass upon the competency of the evidence and its materiality before the trial, was not the subject of appeal, any more than from his refusal to try or continue a cause, or from his order to allow or disallow an amendment. If in the course of a trial a question is objected to and ruled out by the court as irrelvant, or a witness is rejected as incompetent, an appeal cannot then be taken and the trial arrested, but exceptions are made and the trial progresses.\nIn the case before us, the appeal was taken on a ruling from which no appeal lay, even had it been made on the trial and in proper time, instead of in anticipation of a trial, when the court had no jurisdiction whatever to pass upon the objections. The court was right in refusing to decide at that time, but in \u00aberror in allowing the appeal.\nAn appeal can only be taken from \u201c a judicial order or determination of a Judge upon or involving a matter of law or legal inference, which affects a substantial right claimed in any action or proceeding, or which, in effect, determines the action and prevents a judgment from which an appeal might be taken, or discontinues the action or grants or refuses a new trial.\u201d C. C. P., sec. 299. This was not such \u201c judicial order or determination \u201d as is embraced in the statute. Childs v. Martin, 68 N. C. Rep., 307; Gray v. Gaither, 71 N. C. Rep., 55. The appeal having been improvidently allowed, must be dismissed.\nPee CuRiam. Appeal dismissed.",
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        "author": "ByNu\u00edi, J."
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      "tScales c& Scales, for appellant.",
      "Dillard 16 Gilmer, and Gray c& Stamps, contra."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "JAMES WALLINGTON v. A. D. MONTGOMERY, Ex'r.\nAn appeal docs not lie from the Superior to the Supreme Court, upon the refusal of the Judge below to pass upon the competency of evidence and its materiality, especially before the trial.\n(_ Ghilds v. Martin, 68 N. C. Rep. 307; Gray v. Gaither, 71 N. C. Rep. 55, cited and approved.)\nCivil ActioN, on a bond, beard before Kerr, J., at. Fall Term, 1875, of the Superior Court of Rockingham county.\nThe action was brought to recover $12,000, alleged to be due the plaintiff as assignee of one E. M. Powell. After issue joined, the defendant took the deposition of a non-resident -witness, under a commission, returnable to Fall Term, 1875, and during the term the deposition came, directed to the Clerk, in a sealed envelope. Notice was served upon plaintiffs counsel to be present at the opening thereof. The plaintiff\u2019s counsel did not attend, hut having examined the witness, he wrote as follows : \u201c The plaintiff, notified of the opening and pr.rri-.'g on depositions of John W. Montgomery, taken in behalf of the defendant, has no objection to- the regularity of the taking, but he excepts to the propriety and legal sufficiency of the questions propounded to the witness, each and everyone of them, and to the answers thereto. If his exceptions were overruled, the Clerk will enter an appeal to the Judge of the court.\u201d\nThe Clerk overruled the exceptions and entered the appeal. In the calling of the docket the case was not called for trial, hut the defendant directed the attention of the court to the exceptions, and moved the court to pass upon the same. The plaintiff stated that the exceptions and appeal was only intended as a reservation of the right of objection as, to the competency of the evidence. The defendant insisted that the court should pass upon the exceptions, and the court refusing to do so, until the deposition should be offered in evidence upon the trial of the cause, the defendant appealed.\ntScales c& Scales, for appellant.\nDillard 16 Gilmer, and Gray c& Stamps, contra."
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