Mr. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.
In these actions at law, tried together before District Judge James A. Lowell and a jury, respondent obtained judgments and petitioner appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals. The records on the appeals contained what purported to be bills of exceptions signed by the attorneys for the respective parties and initialed by the District Judge as follows: "Allowed August 20, 1930, J.A.L., D.J." The Circuit Court...
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