Case Name: M. H. Ingersoll, Appellant, v. Edward Cudihee, Sheriff of King County, et al., Respondents
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1917-05-26
Citations: 96 Wash. 515
Docket Number: No. 13687
Parties: M. H. Ingersoll, Appellant, v. Edward Cudihee, Sheriff of King County, et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 96
Pages: 515–516

Head Matter:
[No. 13687.
Department One.
May 26, 1917.]
M. H. Ingersoll, Appellant, v. Edward Cudihee, Sheriff of King County, et al., Respondents.
Appeal — Recobd—Statement of Pacts — Sufficiency. A statement of facts certified to contain “a portion” of the proceedings, material facts and evidence, without reciting that it contains all the facts, etc., is insufficient, and will be struck out on motion.
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Ronald, J., entered January 3, 1916, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the defendants, in an action to determine adverse claims to property held under a levy of execution.
Affirmed.
F. E. Hammond and ill. H. Ingersoll, for appellant.
Flick <§- Frater, for respondents.
Reported in 165 Pac. 375.

Opinion:
Main, J.
— The controversy in this case is over the ownership of an automobile, upon which an execution had been levied by the sheriff of King county as the property of a judgment debtor. Under the third party claim statute, Rem. Code, § 573-577, the plaintiff filed an affidavit and bond claiming ownership of the property. The defendants are the sheriff and the plaintiff in the action out of which the execution issued. The cause was tried to the court and a jury, and resulted in a verdict adverse to the plaintiff's claim. From the judgment entered upon the verdict, the appeal is prosecuted.
The respondents move that the statement of facts be stricken because the certificate thereto is insufficient. The certificate recites that the matters and proceedings embodied in the statement of facts are "a portion of the matters and proceedings occurring in said cause;" that the statement contains "a portion of the material facts, matters and proceedings heretofore occurring in said cause;" and that "the foregoing statement of facts contains a portion of the evidence and testimony introduced upon the trial of said cause."
The certificate neither recites that the statement of facts contains all the facts, matters and proceedings occurring in the cause and not already a part of the record, nor that it contains all the facts upon any particular phase of the case. Under the holding of this court in Taylor v. Andres, 83 Wash. 684, 145 Pac. 991, this certificate is not sufficient; and upon the authority of that case, the motion to strike the statement of facts must be granted.
The presumption is in favor of the correctness of the judgment, and in the absence of a statement of facts, the record presents no question upon the merits for review.
The judgment will be affirmed .
Ellis, C. J., Chadwick, Moréis, and Webster, JJ., concur.