Brncic v. District Court

This is an original proceeding. It involves the refusal of the district court, one of the judges thereof, to certify a reporter’s transcript. We are asked to issue a writ in the nature of mandamus to compel the trial court to approve, allow, settle and sign the transcript, and to certify it as part of the record on a writ of error filed in this court.

The facts are not in dispute. The City and County of Denver and one of its employees, petitioners in this original proceeding, were defendants in a district court damage suit involving an automobile collision with one of the city’s dump trucks.…