Case Name: Graves v. Duckwall
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1885-11-07
Citations: 103 Ind. 560
Docket Number: No. 12,166
Parties: Graves v. Duckwall.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 103
Pages: 560–561

Head Matter:
No. 12,166.
Graves v. Duckwall.
Supreme Court.—Practice.—Error Must A ffirmatively Appear.—A party who alleges error must present a record affirmatively showing it; otherwise all reasonable presumptions will be made in favor of the proceedings of the trial court.
Filed Nov. 7, 1885.
From the Miami Circuit Court.
J. L. Farrar, J. Farrar, J. T. Cox, J. M. Brown and N. N. Antrim, for appellant.
F. T. Beasoner, B. P. Effinger and B. J. Loveland, for appellee.

Opinion:
Elliott, J.
The appellant contends that the trial court erred in taxing costs against him. In our opinion the record •does not affirmatively show any error.
The first paragraph of the appellant's complaint counts upon a contract, and it may be that the court rendered judgment upon that paragraph, and, as the amount of the recovery was only five dollars, it was proper to tax the appellant with costs. There is nothing in the record showing that the recovery was not based on the first paragraph of the complaint, and we must presume that the court did base its action upon that paragraph. It is a familiar rule that a party who alleges error must present a record affirmatively showing it, for otherwise all reasonable presumptions will be made in favor of the pi'oceedings of the trial court.
The evidence is not in the record, and in its absence we can not say that the recovery was not upon the paragraph counting on a contract.
There are some answers to interrogatories which tend to show that the verdict was founded on the paragraph sounding in tort, but they by no means cover the entire case, and we can not overthrow the ruling of the court upon them. They are not sufficient to control the general verdict, nor are they sufficient to repel the presumption in favor of the ruling of the trial court.
Judgment affirmed.