Case ID: miss_96/html/0344-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Mates, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lumber Mineral Company v. Minerva King.
    [54 South. 250.]
    MOTION TO STRIKE EROM THE RECORD THE STENOGRAPHER’S TRANSCRIPT OF THE TESTIMONY.
    Supreme Court Practice. Two, stenographers in same ease. Stenographer’s transcript of testimony. Code 1906, § 797, amended Laws 1910, eh. Ill, p. 93, § 797tZ. Motion to strike out.
    
    Where by the consent of the court only a part of the testimony in a cause was taken down by the stenographer regularly appointed for the district and the balance was taken by another, the latter was an official stenographer pro hae vice, within'the meaning of the statute, and a motion to strike from the record the transcript of the evidence made by the latter will be overruled, in the absence of the showing required by Code 1906, § 797, as amended Laws 1910, ch. Ill, p. 93, § 797d, providing that a stenographer’s transcript of his notes of the testimony in a cause shall not be stricken from the record by the supreme court, unless it be shown that the same is incorrect in a material particular, and has neither been approved by the judge, nor agreed to by the parties, nor become a part of the record by operation of law.
    From tb© circuit court of Covington county.
    Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge.
    The Lumber Mineral Company, appellant, was plaintiff in the court below; Mrs. King, appellee, was defendant there. From a judgment in defendant’s favor plaintiff appealed to the supreme court.
    ■When the case reached the supreme court the appellee made the motion mentioned in the opinion of the court.
    
      E. L. Dent and Hirsh, Dent & London, for the motion.
    
      Chalmers Alexander, contra.
    
    Argued orally by B. L. Dent, for the motion and by Chal-mers Alexander, contra.
    
   Mates, C. J.,

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

It fully appears in tbis case that appellants notified in writing, within thirty days after tbe adjournment of court, Thrapp, one of tbe stenographers taking testimony in tbe above styled oause, that a copy of tbe notes was desired for purposes of appeal. But counsel making tbe motion contend that Thrapp was not tbe “official stenographer,” and even though it appears that Thrapp was notified, still tbe statute was not complied with and tbe notes- should be stricken out. Tbis motion is accompanied by no showing that tbe “notes are incorrect in some material particular,” as is required by section of

the Laws of 1910, p. 93. It clearly appears that Thrapp was tbe stenographer who took most of tbe testimony, though two stenographers were present and acted as official stenographer at different times during the trial of the case. The whole record seems to be before this court, and there is no complaint that all the testimony taken is not present. In view of the fact that no damage is occasioned appellee, so- far as is shown by this motion, either of these stenographers was “the official stenographer” pro hac vice and this motion should be overruled. Bor all purposes of the law written notice was served ■on the official stenographer “within thirty days from adjournment of court,” and when this is done “no transcript shall be ■stricken from the record by the supreme court, for any reasons, unless it be shown that such notes are incorrect in some material particular,” and no such showing is here made. {

See Laws 1910, p. 93, § ItQla; Evans v. Ham, ante, p. 342, this term. Motion overruled.