Glaser v. Holdorf

This is an original action in mandamus to compel respondent trial court to certify relators’ proposed statement of facts on their appeal.

Relators served notice of appeal and ordered a statement of facts from the court reporter, who refused to furnish it on the ground that he was unable to do so. He also refused to permit the use of his notes by another in an attempt to produce a transcript thereof.

Thereupon, the relators prepared a purported narrative statement of the trial proceedings from their own notes and submitted it to the trial court as a proposed statement of facts. Defendants did…