Ballard v. Cheney

This cause is submitted upon an imperfect abstract of the record. In many respects it is simply a brief digest or index of the transcript and bill of exceptions. The ap- • pellee, following the course of the appellant, makes his principal references to the record, ignoring in many essential parts of the case the abstract.

Counsel on both sides seem to have lost sight of the purpose of the law requiring abstracts, and depend upon the court to spend the time which is not at its disposal in reading the whole record of the case. The object of the legislature in passing the law of 1885 (Laws 1885,…