Opinion ID: 1678065
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Heading: Record and Abstract

Text: We first note certain deficiencies in the record and abstract. Because Vanbibber's complaint is not included in either the record or the abstract, we are unable to determine whether she was a customer of Worthen, and thus an invitee, or the basis for her cause of action. When essential pleadings are not before us, we affirm the trial court pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 4-2(a)(6). See In Re Estate of Brumley, 323 Ark. 431, 914 S.W.2d 735 (1996). We thus will not consider her appeal. Moreover, although we reach the merits of Boren's appeal, the appellants' failure to abstract any portion of some eleven depositions taken in this lawsuit and referenced only by captions in appellants' abstract renders them unusable by this court in our analysis of her issues. Although the depositions are part of the record, we have said many times that there is only one record and seven justices. We will not require seven justices to scour one record for material that should have been abstracted. See, e.g., In Re Estate of Brumley, supra ; Stroud Crop, Inc. v. Hagler, 317 Ark. 139, 875 S.W.2d 851 (1994).