Cousins v. Westcott

Appellant assigns eight distinct errors, and insists that we shall pass upon each. To do this, we should at least have a record that could be understood. Than the one before us, we doubt whether a more confused transcript was ever presented to any court. In some parts it is illegible, and as a whole it fails to develop in any, much less a proper form, such facts or state of case as would justify us in passing upon the questions attempted to be raised. If we are to have frequent repetitions of so dire an infliction, a resort to printed transcripts will soon become a positive necessity. If we…