Court Opinion

ID: 9542614
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:36:36.761783+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:08:26.631723
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ELLETT, Justice
(dissenting) :
I dissent from the holding that the trial court could not find res judicata. The main opinion says, “A survey of the record reveals that defendant never submitted a copy of the pleadings and judgment in Civil No. 17649 to the trial court.”
The true statement should be that the record does not show that the files in Civil No. 17649 were not before the trial court. There is no transcript before us, and it is mere speculation to say that counsel did not hand file No. 17649 to the judge and say, “Will Your Honor take judicial notice of papers in this file?”
We presume the judge acted properly and based his ruling on credible evidence. One who attacks the judgment of the Trial Court has the burden of showing error, and when the transcript of a proceeding in court is not brought before us, we cannot speculate that perhaps there was no proper evidence to sustain the ruling made.1
There is in the record before us a certified copy of the complaint in Case No. 17649 which clearly shows that the claims made in the instant matter were set forth therein.
I would therefore affirm the ruling of the trial court.
CROCKETT, J., concurs in the views expressed in the dissenting opinion of EL-LETT, J.

. In re Voorhees’ Estate, 12 Utah 2d 361, 366 P.2d 977.