Case Name: Pittenger, Appellant, v. Kennedy
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1892-03-28
Citations: 148 Pa. 198
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 71
Parties: Pittenger, Appellant, v. Kennedy.
Judges: Before Paxson, C. J., Sterrett, Williams, McCollum and Heydrick, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 148
Pages: 198–199

Head Matter:
Pittenger, Appellant, v. Kennedy.
Supreme Court practice — Exception to paper book — Omission of material evidence.
Where an assignment of error depends upon a consideration of the evidence, such evidence must be made a part of, and returned with, the record. Where a case depends upon the evidence, and a material portion of it is omitted, the Supreme Court cannot do otherwise than affirm the judgment.
Graff v. Barrett, 29 Pa. 477, followed.
. In an action of trespass, a map of a survey of the premises offered by defendant was objected to by plaintiff and admitted. On appeal, appellant’s paper book did not contain a copy of this map, although it was referred to both in the charge of the court and appellant’s argument. Appellee excepted to plaintiff’s paper book on this ground.
Held, that the exception should be sustained and judgment affirmed.
Argued Feb. 22, 1892.
Appeal, No. 71, July T., 1891, by plaintiff, W. K. Pittenger, from judgment of C. P. Lackawanna Co., June T., 1887, No. 395, on verdict for defendant, Levi Kennedy.
Before Paxson, C. J., Sterrett, Williams, McCollum and Heydrick, JJ.
Trespass vi et armis for tearing down a partition fence.
The case was tried below by Archbald, P. J., a,nd resulted in a verdict for defendant. Plaintiff appealed, assigning numerous errors and filing a paper book, to which appellee excepted.
The exception appears by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
It. II. Solgate and J. Alten Davis, of Connolly Davis, for appellant.
March 28, 1892:
E. C. Newcomb, Ward Horn with him, for appellee.

Opinion:
Per Curiam,
Upon the argument of this case at bar it became apparent that an important paper, essential to a proper understanding of the subject of dispute, bad been omitted from tbe appellant's paper book. The defendant (appellee) excepted to the sufficiency of appellant's paper book, for the following reasons, viz.: "Because it omits a material part of tbe evidence, viz., tbe map offered in evidence by defendant, identified as defendant's exhibit D, although it is referred to both in the charge of the court and appellant's argument." In Graff v. Barrett, 29 Pa. 477, it was held that, where an assignment of error depends upon a consideration of tbe evidence, such evidence must be made a part of, and returned with, the record. Tbis is familiar law. Where a case depends upon the evidence, and a material portion of it is omitted, we cannot do otherwise than affirm the judgment.
Judgment affirmed.