In Re Hardy

On October 16, 1939, the Appellate Court of Indiana filed an opinion dismissing the case of Santa Claus, Inc., et al. v. Santa Clause of Santa Claus, Inc., 22 N. E. (2d) 879, 880. The opinion recites: “The record presented to us is so impregnated with spoliation of some unknown stranger to the record while the record was in the possession of the appellants or actually mutilated and forged by the appellants as charged by the appellee that in our opinion no record importing proper verity is before us.” It is said in the opinion that the record was altered by adding page 157, showing the filing…