Court Opinion

ID: 5562379
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 00:53:11.650884+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:30.744683
License: Public Domain

Hall, Justice.
While the act of the general assembly, approved September 27th, 1883 (Acts, 107), provides for the transmis*539sion of only a part of the record to this court from the superior and city courts whenever, in any case, counsel for the parties may agree in writing that it is not necessary, for a proper determination of the questions made by the bill of exceptions, that the full transcript of the record shall be sent to this court, and shall present to the presiding judge, in connection with the bill of exceptions, an agreed statement of what parts of the record are sufficient for that purpose, and the judge shall so certify, it shall be the duty of the clerk to transmit only the parts agreed on, yet we do not understand that this dispenses with the pleadings on which the cause is founded; at least, we are of opinion that the declaration and pleas filed should appear in the record- transmitted, as without them it is scarcely possible to ascertain what were the issues submitted and passed upon; yet as no motion was made to dismiss the writ of error for the want of these pleadings, and as this is the first grant of a new trial, in which it does not affirm, atively appear that the discretion'of the court in ordering it has been abused, and inasmuch as it is incumbent upon the party alleging it to show error, and that has not been done, we are constrained to sustain the action of the court upon the well-established presumption, when nothing to the contrary is made to appear, that the ruling of the court is to be considered correct: we are constrained to order the judgment affirmed.