Case Name: L. K. Deller, Respondent, v. A. C. Long et al., Appellants
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1917-05-18
Citations: 96 Wash. 372
Docket Number: No. 13771
Parties: L. K. Deller, Respondent, v. A. C. Long et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 96
Pages: 372–373

Head Matter:
[No. 13771.
Department One.
May 18, 1917.]
L. K. Deller, Respondent, v. A. C. Long et al., Appellants.
Appeal — Recoed—Statement of Pacts — Ceetificate. Where the statement of facts is certified to contain only the plaintiff’s evidence, it must be presumed that it does not contain all the material facts, and there can be no review of the evidence on appeal, the only question being whether the findings support the judgment.
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Huneke, J., entered July 18, 1916, upon findings in favor of the plaintiff, in an action on contract, tried to the court.
Affirmed.
Louis A. Dyar, for appellants.
Harry M. Morey, for respondent.
Reported in 165 Pac. 98.

Opinion:
Webster, J.
— The single issue presented to the superior court in this case was whether the defendants, by verbal contracts, expressly guaranteed to pay plaintiff's assignors a fixed and stipulated net price for a number of boxes of apples which had been delivered to the defendants. It was the contention of the defendants that the apples had been received by them as commission brokers in the usual course of business, and that no guaranty of price had been made. The issue was purely one of fact. The trial court made findings to the effect that the contracts actually entered into between the parties were as alleged by the plaintiff; namely, that the defendants guaranteed a fixed net price for the apples. Defendants appeal.
The certificate to the statement of facts recites:
"The above and foregoing statement of facts contains all of the material facts, matters and proceedings heretofore occurring in the plaintiff's case only in said cause, and not already a part of the record therein, and contains all of the plaintiff's evidence oral and written therein."
The record does not purport to contain all of the evidence produced upon the trial, nor does it appear from the certificate that such portion of the record as is brought here contains all of the material facts, matters and proceedings occurring at the trial and not already a part of the record, nor that it contains such thereof as the parties have agreed to be all that are material. Under such a certificate, it must be presumed that the statement does not include all of the material facts. Taylor v. Andres, 83 Wash. 684, 145 Pac. 991; State ex rel. Miller v. Seattle, 45 Wash. 691, 89 Pac. 152; Kirby v. Collins, 6 Wash. 297, 32 Pac. 1060.
In this condition of the record it is impossible to try the case de novo on the facts. The findings clearly support the judgment, and this is the only question we are at liberty to review. Pack v. Peabody, 58 Wash. 76, 107 Pac. 839; Lohman v. Claussen, 55 Wash. 408, 104 Pac. 624.
We conclude that the judgment must be affirmed.
Ellis, C. J., Morris, Main, and Chadwick, JJ., concur.