Case ID: miss_121/html/0434-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Smith, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

White et al. v. Board of Supervisors of Scott County.
    [83 South. 611,
    In Banc.
    No. 20877.]
    Appeal and Error. Stenographer’s notes not filed persuant to notice given within thirty days after adjournment of term will be stricken from record.
    
    Under Laws 1910, chapter 111, par. (D) Hemingway’s Code, section 585, so providing, notice, to the stenographer to file his notes of oral evidence taken at a trial must be given within thirty days of the adjournment of the term of court at which the trial was had and where the appellant did not give such notice until thirty-five days had elapsed after the adjournment of the term, such evidence on appeal will, on motion, he stricken from the record, though not claimed to be incorrect in any particular.
    Appeal from the chancery court of Scott county.
    Hon. G. C. Tann, Chancellor.
    Suit between C. E. W'hite and others and the Board of Supervisors of Scott County. The former appeals.
    The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
    
      J. P. White, for appellant.
    
      Watkins & Watkins, for appellee.
   Smith, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The evidence introduced in the court below was in part by deposition and in part oral; the latter being taken down by a stenographer in accordance with the statute so providing. The notice to the stenographer to transcribe his notes of the evidence was not given by the appellant until thirty-five days after the adjournment of the term of court at which the case was tried, and there is indorsed on it neither the approval of counsel for the appellee nor agreement that it shall constitute a part of the record.

While it does not appear and is not contended by counsel for the appellee that the stenographer’s transcript of the evidence is incorrect in any material particular, nevertheless the motion to strike it from the record must be sustained, for the reason that he was without the right to file his transcript as a part of the record, unless notice had been given him to do so within thirty days after the adjournment of court at which the case was tried. Laws 1910, chapter 111, par. (d); Hemingway’s Code, section 585; Richmond v. Enochs, 109 Miss. 14, 67 So. 649; Lee Line Steamer v. American Export Co., 109 Miss. 524, 68 So. 771.

The .motion, therefore, will be sustained, and the stenographer’s notes of the oral evidence introduced on the trial will be stricPken from the record, leaving, of course, the depositions to remain as a part of the record.

Sustained.