Swensen v. Union Central Life Insurance

— At the threshold of this case, ;we are met with a motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that Buies 15, 16, and 17, relating to the preparation of the abstract of the record, and Bule 30, relating to assignment of errors, were not complied with by the appellant.

The abstract is quite cumbersome, containing 232 pages with most of the record of testimony set out by question and answer. This is sometimes necessary to enable the appellate court to properly understand the particular complaint or error assigned. However, unless such necessity exists, this method of preparing an abstract has…