Case ID: nc_110/html/0309-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Merrimon, C. J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

W. A. COX, Administrator, v. NANCY A. JONES et al.
    
      Appeal — Transcript of Record — Judgment, Vacating.
    
    The Supreme Court will not consider an appeal from a motion to set -aside the orders, decrees, etc., in an action or special proceeding, for irregularities, unless the transcript contains a record of such action or proceeding; and where it appears that the original record has been lost or destroyed, the cause will be remanded, to the end that the record may be properly supplied.
    This was an appeal from a judgment rendered at Spring Term, 1891, of Jones Superior Court, Mclver, J., presiding.
    
      Mr. John Devereux, Jr., for plaintiff.
    
      Mr. H. R. Kornegay, for defendant.
   Merrimon, C. J.:

This is a motion made in September of 1888, to set aside, for alleged gross irregularities, the orders and judgments made in 1871 in a special proceeding brought by the plaintiff administrator to obtain license to sell land to make assets to pay debts of his intestate. The transcript of the record is very voluminous and confused. The evidence on which the findings of fact are based is improperly sent up, as there is no exception on the ground there was no evidence to support some finding of fact. In 'a case like this, this Court cannot review such findings. The evidence sent up is mere redundant matter, serving no purpose here.

It was not brought to our attention on the argument, as it should liave been, that the transcript did not contain the record of the special proceeding — it only embraced the record of the motion and proceedings subsequent thereto. It is essential that;we have the record before us, in order that we may see and determine what the irregularities are, if there be such. Hence, we directed that a writ of certiorari issue to the Clerk of the Superior Court commanding him to certify the record to us. He has made return of the writ, sending only fragmentary parts of the record, and stating that these were all he could by diligent search find in his office. He failed to send a transcript of the summons, the petition and the report of sale. Moreover, he did not send up, as he should have done, a copy of the deeds made by the administrator to the purchaser of the land. •

We cannot properly decide^ the case until the record of the special proceeding is before us. To the end that so much 'of it as is lost or destroyed may be properly supplied, we remand the case. The Court below will have authority to supply the necessary record according to law, and to make all appropriate amendments and orders necessary to perfect the appeal. Bethea v. Byrd, 93 N. C , 141. Let the case be remanded, accompanied by a certified copy of this opinion.

Remanded.