Title: PETTY, ETC. v. Friel
Citation: 167 N.E.2d 345, 240 Ind. 572
Docket Number: 29,869
State: Indiana
Issuer: Indiana Supreme Court
Date: May 24, 1960

240 Ind. 572 (1960)
167 N.E.2d 345
PETTY, EXECUTRIX, ETC.
v.
FRIEL.
No. 29,869.

Supreme Court of Indiana.
Filed May 24, 1960.
*573 Robert E. Coats and Harry M. Stitle, Jr., both of Indianapolis, for appellant.
John G. McNutt and Bernard Korbly, both of Indianapolis, for appellee.
JACKSON, C.J.
This is an appeal from the Probate Court of Marion County, Indiana. On December 10, 1959, appellee filed her motion to dismiss appeal, which motion, in pertinent parts, reads as follows:
The appellant filed a transcript in the clerk's office of this court on November 19, 1959. We do not doubt that there was filed in the trial court the petition of Mary C. Friel to require the payment of the judgment rendered in the Johnson Circuit Court, nor the filing of appellant's Motion Requesting Overruling of the Petition of Mary C. Friel, nor do we doubt *576 that the court entered the order overruling such motion of appellant, but this inference is only a presumption. The transcript is imperfect.[1] Such imperfection cannot be cured by indulging in inferences or presumptions in favor of the appellant.
The transcript does not show that such an order as appellant sets out in her brief was entered by said Probate Court. It does not show that any order or judgment, interlocutory or final, was entered or rendered by said court. The transcript does not show that the things, actions or proceedings recited were among the proceedings had in the court below. "Apt words should precede the transcript of each record entry, showing when it was made." Ewbank's Manual of Practice (Second Edition) page 241, paragraph 116.
"Where papers appear in the transcript, they must be shown, in some appropriate manner, to have been filed." F.W. &amp; H. Tr. &amp; App. Pract. § 2333, comment 7, p. 119. The Evansville Suburban &amp; Newburgh Ry. Co. v. Lavender, Admx. (1893), 7 Ind. App. 655, 34 N.E. 109.
"It is only by the record that the judgments of a court can be known." Gray v. Singer, Administrator (1894), 137 Ind. 257, 258, 36 N.E. 209.
Section 186 of Elliott's Appellate Procedure is as follows:
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The transcript here being defective, and our attention having been directed to the infirmity in the transcript, appellee's motion to dismiss the appeal is well taken, should be and hereby is sustained.
Appeal dismissed at cost of appellant.
Bobbitt, J., concurs.
Landis, Achor and Arterburn, JJ., concur in result.
NOTE.  Reported in 167 N.E.2d 345.
[1]  See Buskirk's Practice, page 83 et seq.