Case Name: SMITH, Respondent, v. JOHNSON, Appellant
Court: South Dakota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: South Dakota
Decision Date: 1915-02-20
Citations: 35 S.D. 151
Docket Number: File No. 3609
Parties: SMITH, Respondent, v. JOHNSON, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Dakota Reports
Volume: 35
Pages: 151–152

Head Matter:
SMITH, Respondent, v. JOHNSON, Appellant.
(151 N. W. 46.)
(File No. 3609.
Opinion filed February 20, 1915.
Rehearing granted March 8, 1915.)
Appeals — Objectionable Brief — Redundant and Irrelevant Matter— Affirmance.
Appellant’s counsel without condensation or effort to state tbe substance of matters considered material ion appeal, inserted, in tbe statement in bis brief, portions of testimony copied verbatim from stenographer’s transcript, with objections to evidence and rulings thereon not assigned as error nor complained of by him is .his brief, and preliminary questions serving no purpose except to encumber the record and increase the Court’s labor. Held, that the judgment will be affirmed. Following Donahue v. Adebar, 34 S. D. 471, 149 N. W. 175.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Ouster County. Hon. Levi McGee, Judge.
Action by William H. Smith against Erland H. Johnson. From a judgment for plaintiff defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Null & Royhl, for Appellant.
Lawrence H. Hedrick, for Respondent.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In the preparation of their brief herein, appellant'®' counsel were guilty of the same failures to comply with the rules andl decisions of this court as were noted by this court in the opinion in Donahoe v. Adebar, 149 N. W. 175. Everything .said in such opinion in relation to the appellant's brief would apply to the brief before us.
The judgment appealed from is affirmed.