Nichols v. Lantz

Reed, P, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

The court would be warranted in refusing to consider .this case for failure to file an abstract as required by the rules. *2What is called an abstract is, at best, but a partial, partisan index, and we are compelled to entirely disregard it and resort to the record. What an abstract should contain to assist the court should readily be apparent to counsel,—a fair, clear, and unbiased synopsis of all that pertained to the tidal, and, where a fact in evidence is relied rfpon, or a ruling or order of the court, the entire evidence pertaining, and the…