Rogers v. Colpitts

GREENE, Judge.

David E. Colpitts (Defendant) appeals from the trial court’s 17 March 1997 order and judgment ordering specific performance of portions of the parties’ separation agreement.

In the record on appeal, Defendant’s sole assignment of error states: “[Defendant] assigns as error the following: 1. The Court’s ‘Order’ No. 8(a). Record, page 46.”

The dispositive issue is whether Defendant has abandoned his appeal by failing to specify the legal basis on which he assigns error.

The scope of review on appeal “is confined to a consideration of those assignments of error set out in the record…