Chong v. Ruffini

This is a petition to establish the draft report filed by the defendants.2 The original case involved a controversey over the plaintiffs’ dissatisfaction with a house built and sold to them by the defendants. The trial judge made a finding for the plaintiffs in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

After considering the draft report filed by defendants the judge entered the following order:

The document labeled ‘Draft report’ cannot be said to be in appropriate form for a report. It is rather a narrative of the defendant’s view of the evidence. It contains many statements as facts…