Case ID: mo_98/html/0404-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Black, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jayne, Appellant, v. Wine.
    Practice in Supreme Court: abstract of the record. The rules of the supreme court require the appellant or plaintiff in error to set forth in his abstract so much of the record as is necessary to a full understanding of all the questions presented to the court for its decision. The material portions of the evidence should be set out in the abstract as it appears in the record so that the court may make its own deductions and where the abstract contains only a statement of what counsel conceives to be the proper conclusions to be drawn from the evidence the judgment will be affirmed, without an examination of the case upon its merits.
    
      Appeal from Scotland Circuit Court. — Hon. B. E. Turner, Judge.
    Affirmed.
    
      McKee & Jayne for appellant.
    
      F. T. Hughes for respondent.
   Black, J.

— This was a suit to enjoin and restrain the collection of certain taxes for the years 1878 and 1881. That the county court had the power to levy the tax does not seem to be denied, but the relief is asked on the ground of irregularities on the part of the assessor and county clerk, and among other things it is alleged that the assessor did not verify the assessment books by his affidavit.

The abstracts are so deficient that we are not able to determine from them what the facts are in respect of these alleged irregularities, and for this reason we feel in duty bound to affirm the judgment without passing upon the merits of the case. Consolidated rules 15 and 16 require the appellant or plaintiff in error to set forth, in his abstract, so much of the record as is necessary to a full understanding of all the questions presented to this court for its decision. In this case, there is no effort on the part of appellant to set out the record or any part of it. All we have is the statement of counsel, in six or seven lines, of what he believes to be the proper conclusions to.be drawn from the evidence, which is no compliance with our rules, either in letter or spirit. The material portions of the evidence should be set out in the abstract as it appears in the record, so that we can see what it is and make our own deductions. The present state of our docket makes it all important that we require a fair compliance with these rules, and that not having been done we are all agreed that the judgment should be affirmed, and it is so ordered.