Case Name: The State of Washington, on the Relation of C. Hofstetter, Plaintiff, v. Ben Sheeks, Judge etc., Respondent
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1911-10-26
Citations: 65 Wash. 410
Docket Number: No. 9516
Parties: The State of Washington, on the Relation of C. Hofstetter, Plaintiff, v. Ben Sheeks, Judge etc., Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 410–411

Head Matter:
[No. 9516.
Department One.
October 26, 1911.]
The State of Washington, on the Relation of C. Hofstetter, Plaintiff, v. Ben Sheeks, Judge etc., Respondent.
Appeal — -Record—Statement of Facts — Proposing and Certifying. Where, in making up a proposed statement of facts, the trial judge ordered appellant’s statement of his evidence in narrative form stricken out and the full stenographer’s report thereof added, the appellant is not entitled to have the statement certified by adding the stenographer’s report without striking out the objectionable part as ordered.
Application filed in the supreme court September 29, 1911, for a writ of mandamus to compel the superior court for King county, Sheeks, J., to certify a proposed statement of facts.
Denied.
L. H. Wheeler, for relator.
Roberts, Battle, Hulbert & Tennant and Geo. R. Biddle, for respondent.
Reported in 118 Pac. 308.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
— This is a second application for a writ of mandate. See former opinion, State ex rel. Hofstetter v. Sheeks, 63 Wash. 408, 115 Pac. 859. In speaking to the merits, after an answer had been filed to the first writ, we said:
"But the trial judge having certified to this court that the proposed statement is in some respects untrue, the writ will issue, with directions to the lower court to specify his objections so that .the relator may have formal opportunity to comply with his demands. 'The court should, if in its judgment the statement omitted certain material evidence or proceedings, order the insertion thereof in the record, and continue so to order until it could properly make its certificate in the language of the statute.' State ex rel. Roberts v. Clifford, supra."
The relator states in his application, "that the said judge . ordered and directed that the whole of affiant's, plaintiff's, testimony embraced in plaintiff's original proposed statement of facts should be stricken." He has not complied with this requirement, which we think was a reasonable one. This was pointed out to him by the letter of the respondent, wherein he states : "One complete statement should be made up by omitting what I ordered stricken from your proposed statement and by inserting what I ordered added." The relator has added one hundred and twenty-seven pages to the original statement of facts, and has duplicated his own testimony. A part of the original statement is in the narrative. It is possible, therefore, that there may be a conflict between the substance of the testimony as prepared by the relator in the original statement and a verbatim copy of the testimony as transcribed by the reporter. A compliance with the court's suggestion will at least avoid confusion and repetition. The relator has seemingly complied with all of the court's order except that he has not stricken his own testimony from the original statement.
The writ is denied.