Bastain v. Brown

Defendant, Thomas E. Brown, 1 appeals pro se from the judgment entered by the circuit court against him after a trial de novo on a small claims action brought by plaintiffs Travis Bastain and Celestine Bastain. On appeal, defendant challenges the trial court’s failure to consider certain evidence adduced at trial. We dismiss the appeal on the ground that the record on appeal is insufficient under Rule 81.12(a) to review the appeal, because defendant failed to file a transcript of the trial de novo.

Rule 81.12(a) provides that the record on appeal shall contain all of the record, proceedings…