Opinion ID: 2615088
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Heading: the cost of supplementing the record on appeal

Text: Respondents Thomas and Pitts obtained a court order requiring appellant to include in the record on appeal the opening and closing statements of counsel. No issue on appeal concerned the propriety of such statements, and of course they cannot constitute evidence. NRAP 10 does not invest the party who prevailed in the lower court with the unqualified right to require the appellant to file a full trial transcript. Appellant and his counsel are under a duty to omit from the record on appeal all material that is not essential to decision of the questions on appeal. See Driscoll v. Erreguible, 87 Nev. 97, 102, 482 P.2d 291, 294 (1971). In the case of Armstrong v. Onufrock, 75 Nev. 342, 341 P.2d 105 (1959), the respondents had required the appellant to include in the record on appeal trial testimony that was not relevant to any of the issues raised on appeal, and we held that the appellant was entitled to be reimbursed for the costs of including that irrelevant testimony. Id. at 348, 341 P.2d at 108. The same reasoning applies in this case. We hold that the district court erred in requiring appellant to bear the cost of adding the requested portions of transcript. In sum, we reverse and remand for further proceedings both the district court's award of attorney's fees to respondents Thomas and Pitts and its order requiring appellant to include at his cost certain portions of the trial transcript in the record on appeal. We uphold the judgment of the district court in all other respects. MANOUKIAN, C.J., and SPRINGER, STEFFEN and GUNDERSON, JJ., concur.